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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty

Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 2021

I analyse firms organisational choices when they face uncertainty about institutional conditions in foreign locations … increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …

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Regional distribution of German-Czech multinationals on the domestic market

Schaeffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2012 - Preliminary version

This article deals with the domestic location of German multinational firms which have affiliates in the Czech Republic. Due to the common border the Czech Republic represents an attractive target country for both vertical and horizontal direct investments. In the year 2009 the sum of direct and...

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Locational flexibility of the manufacturing multinational enterprise : a framework and two case studies

Wunnik, Lucas van - 2011

In this paper, I try to develop a framework, which presents the factors influencing the mobility capacity of the manufacturing activity of a multinational enterprise (the difficulty/ease with which it can transfer its manufacturing activity from the initial host territory to another territory)....

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The impact of carbon emission considerations on manufacturing value chain relocation

Wu, Peng; Jin, Ying; Shi, Yongjiang - 2011 - This paper is an extended version

As a stark contrast to the diminishing media profile of the UN climate change talks, the global manufacturers appear to have become more carbon aware than ever before. Carbon audits have been carried out within many corporations to assess the carbon intensity of production processes. This is...

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Business model innovation : a case of the offshore lifting equipment supplier

Shlopak, Mikhail; Myhre, Richard; Hofinger Jünge, Gabriele - In: Digitalization in supply chain management and logistics …, (pp. 175-193). 2017

The purpose of this paper is to present the background for and the process of development of an Internet of Things (IoT) business model (BM) for a Norwegian offshore lifting equipment supplier. The paper presents both challenges and new opportunities connected to the case company’s transition...

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What determines the relocation tendency of manufacturing firms? : 50th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International 19-23 August 2010, Jönköping, Sweden

Alkay, Elif - 2010

Firms locate in different areas for different reasons. However, some of them tend to move a new place in order to achieve alternative goals. For instance, the manufacturing survey in 2005 reflects that 30 per cent of the manufacturing firms in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area would like to...

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Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology : 54th ERSA Congress Saint Petersburg 26-29 August, 2014

Miguélez, Ernest - 2014

&D offshoring. The study finds a strong and robust relationship between inventor diaspora and different forms of international co … stronger for inventor-to-inventor collaborations - co-inventorship - than for applicant-to-inventor co-patents ? R&D offshoring …

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Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers

Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2019

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …

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Offshoring, mismatch, and labor market outcomes

Arseneau, David M.; Epstein, Brendan - In: Globalization : strategies and effects, (pp. 47-74). 2017

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Redistribution policy and offshoring in general equilibrium

Kohl, Miriam; Naumann, Fabrice - 2021

We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of … by the share of offshoring firms in the economy. The intuition for this result is straightforward. The progressive income … therefore affect the domestic economy not only directly but also via changes in the amount of offshoring. This has important …

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