Integration, Industrial Linkages and Production Subcontracting An Overview
In: Journal of development alternatives and area studies, Band 25, Heft 1-2, S. 21-44
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In: Journal of development alternatives and area studies, Band 25, Heft 1-2, S. 21-44
In: The Rand journal of economics, Band 55, Heft 1, S. 3-32
ISSN: 1756-2171
AbstractGovernment procurement contracts are frequently subject to policies that specify a subcontracting requirement for the utilization of historically disadvantaged firms. I study how such subcontracting policies affect procurement auctions using data from New Mexico's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program. Theoretically, subcontracting requirements reduce prime contractors' private information on their costs by requiring them to select their subcontractors from a common pool of disadvantaged firms. This feature mitigates cost increases from using more costly subcontractors by causing prime contractors to strategically lower their markups. My estimated model reveals that New Mexico's past subcontracting requirements led to minor increases in procurement costs.
In: Administrative Science Quarterly, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 668
In: International review of law and economics, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 145-159
ISSN: 0144-8188
In: The Rand journal of economics, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 705-746
ISSN: 1756-2171
This article examines the impact of incomplete contracts on subcontracting and the design of procurement auctions. I estimate the effect of ex post contract revisions on unit costs for both subcontracted and in‐house performed work items on bridge projects procured by the California Department of Transportation. I model a scoring auction showing how ex post revisions skew bidding decisions and estimate unit costs from bid data using the method of sieve estimation. The results highlight the cost implications of incomplete contracting frictions, subcontracting decisions, and bidding distortions. In conclusion, I propose alternative auction mechanisms that could improve outcomes.
In: Journal of international trade & economic development: an international and comparative review, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 82-100
ISSN: 1469-9559
In: The economic history review, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 45-72
ISSN: 1468-0289
This paper examines changes in the organization of the Spanish cotton industry from 1736 to 1860 in its core region of Catalonia. As the Spanish cotton industry adopted the most modern technology available and experienced the transition to the factory system, cotton spinning and weaving mills became increasingly vertically integrated. Asset specificity, more than other factors, explains this tendency towards vertical integration. The probability of a firm being vertically integrated was higher among firms located in districts with high concentration ratios, and rose with size and the use of modern machinery. At the same time, subcontracting predominated in other phases of production and distribution, where transaction costs appear to be less important.
In: Revista Direito e Práxis: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 2543-2571
ISSN: 2179-8966
Abstract Although outsourcing (or subcontracting) has been subject of great controversy, there is predominant consensus over the concept that defines it. The aim of this paper is to discuss this consensus and point out its contradictions, indicating that the casualization of labour related to outsourcing is not a contingency, but corollary of the nature of this way of hiring workers, which tends to reduce the chances of limiting labour exploitation.
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 61, S. 128-140
ISSN: 0147-5479
In: Japanese Yearbook on Business History, Band 13, S. 73-96
ISSN: 1884-6181
In: The Journal of Industrial Economics, Band 63, Heft 1, S. 100-128
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In: Problems of economics, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 31-36
In: Arbeitspapiere zur Strukturanalyse, 31
World Affairs Online
In: The review of socionetwork strategies, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 51-65
ISSN: 1867-3236
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 28, Heft 10, S. 1837-1847