firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing … ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …

multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications. …

We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour … sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and wages? We show … that profit sharing has a positive effect on low skilled wage and thus an outsourcing enhancing character. The wages of …

We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the … implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing … a wage increasing effect via labor demand elasticity so that outsourcing and employment effects are also ambiguous …

We analyze the questions associated with flexible outsourcing both with committed and flexible profit sharing under … imperfect domestic labour markets. How does profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between … outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment, when profit sharing is also a part of the compensation schemes in …

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 …