taking place in global electronics production, with vertical fragmentation, horizontal consolidation, and the growth of Asian …

through outsourcing with multinational enterprises from advanced nations. Yet, their paths to this dynamic sector are very …

Pervasive outsourcing is transforming business models and productive relations in advanced manufacturing areas. In … particular, the international dimension of outsourcing, off-shoring, has been attracting great attention, as it leads to the … countries in the international division of labour. The present paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing and …

Over the past two decades multinational firms from high-technology industries have increasingly relied on outsourcing … firm (RBV) and develop hypotheses claiming that outsourcing of production will not result in the outsourcing of … of the sample firms has not been affected by the ongoing outsourcing activities. The empirical observation gives rise to …

develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and … possibility of offshoring has favorable implications for economic growth. Yet, offshoring induced by a higher bargaining power of … the upstream division can hamper growth: while there is always a positive correlation between upstream bargaining weight …