This paper studies how outsourcing decision affects technology transfer, productive performance, and input composition. We estimate the impact of outsourcing on the Taiwan¡¦s Information Technology Industries by using a flexible (translog) function to represent. Comparing the channels of technology transfer ¡V export, purchasing technology, selling technology-, and export has stronger effect than purchasing technology. Selling technology may be uncertain. Outsourcing out and in improve firms¡¦ productivity. The impact of outsourcing out on labor demand will be uncertain. There are four industries increasing labor demand and two industries decreasing labor demand. Most Information Technology industries are complementary to labor.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0713106-150414 |
| Date | 13 July 2006 |
| Creators | Yeh, Tso-Hsuan |
| Contributors | Diana H.A Tsai, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0713106-150414 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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