Economies of Scope and Patterns of Global Outsourcing

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scope ◽  
Global Outsourcing

Kostendegression in der digitalen Medienproduktion

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (S) ◽  
pp. 26-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Grau ◽  
Thomas Hess
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Economies Of Scope

Der First-Copy-Cost-Effekt gilt als ein zentrales Spezifikum der Medienproduktion und bezeichnet die für die Medienwirtschaft charakteristische Fixkostendegression bei steigender Ausbringungsmenge. Obwohl der First-Copy-Cost-Effekt zu den Klassikern in Lehrbüchern der Medienökonomie und des Medienmanagements gehört, bestehen Zweifel, ob er noch immer ein adäquates Abbild der Kostenstruktur der Medienproduktion darstellt. Der vorliegende Beitrag greift diese Fragestellung auf, indem die Ergebnisse einer Literaturanalyse zum State-of-the-Art des Effekts den aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Medienproduktion gegenübergestellt werden. Die hier vorgestellten ersten Überlegungen zeigen, dass die Grundaussage auch weiterhin Gültigkeit besitzt, aber eine Reihe weiterer Aspekte wie beispielsweise Economies of Scope in das Konstrukt Einzug halten müssen, um die Kostenstruktur der aktuellen Medienproduktion realistisch abbilden zu können.

scholarly journals Information related service trade within firms: evidence from firm-level data in Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt A. Hafner ◽  
Jörn Kleinert
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Economies Of Scope ◽  
It Services ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
It Service ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Related Service ◽  
Foreign Affiliates ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Parent Companies

AbstractMulti-unit firms have productivity advantages over competitors because of their use of a non-rival asset—firm-specific knowledge—in several units. Using knowledge-intensive services leads to economies of scope in production by multi-unit firms. Such headquarter are usually supplied by parent companies and serve to link different firm units. Headquarter services are difficult to quantify in statistics or surveys, except when they cross-borders and the exchange of services between MNEs and their offshore subsidiaries becomes apparent. This study therefore focuses on IT service imports to explain productivity differences among foreign affiliates of multinational firms in Germany. The authors base the analysis on the population of foreign multinational firms active in Germany and analyze what effect the import of IT services has on their productivity. They find that IT headquarter service flows have significant impacts on foreign affiliates’ productivity in general and US affiliates in particular. As the average IT-service flows (per firm and partner) from parent countries are significantly higher for US affiliates than non-US affiliates, they conclude that the import of IT services from the parent-company is a source of the productivity advantages of US affiliates in Germany.

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