We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs. A number of interesting regularities emerge. When a … developed countries. In many cases, the measured responses to cost changes appear to correspond with outsourcing theories that …

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We …

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute … products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … evidence of a second-order positive effect of offshoring on the levels of innovation--particularly product innovation--in other …

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …

This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … statistical association between the share of both "non-clerical" and clerical occupations potentially affected by offshoring and …