Outsourcing business services and the role of central administrative offices

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作者
Ono, Y [1 ]
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[1] Fed Reserve Bank Chicago, Chicago, IL 60604 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0094-1190(03)00006-8
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F [经济];
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02 ;
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In this paper, I study whether there is any evidence that the market scale surrounding a central administrative office (CAO) has any relation to a firm's cost-effectiveness in procuring business services. By linking plant-level data from the 1992 Annual Survey of Manufactures with CAO information from the Survey of Auxiliary Establishments, I examine manufacturing plants' practice of outsourcing services in relation to the size of the local service market surrounding the plant and that surrounding the plant's CAO. I found evidence which suggests that the greater the size of local market surrounding a CAO, the higher the plant's probability of relying on the CAO for outsourcing advertising, bookkeeping and accounting, and legal services. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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