. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …

their HQs so as to spread their different HQs functions over several locations around the world. The literature on the … that the competition between (potential) locations for HQ functions will rise. -- Internationalisation ; corporate …

effects. On the other hand, when looking at the effects of offshore outsourcing, the results are ambiguous …. -- internationalisation ; FDI ; outsourcing offshore ; employment ; labour market …

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …