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Economic insecurity in the new wave of globalization : offshoring and the labor share under varieties of capitalism

Milberg, William S.; Winkler, Deborah - In: International review of applied economics 24 (2010) 3, pp. 285-308

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Within and between firm trends in job polarization : the roles of globalization and technology

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Maczulskij, Terhi; Maliranta, Mika - In: Journal of economic geography 20 (2020) 4, pp. 1003-1039

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The new paradigm of international production : empirical evidence of Spanish offshoring activities

Matías Batalla, David de - 2016

mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …

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Procurement: The Transaction Costs Perspective in a Globalising World

den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2007

Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...

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Offshoring, Globalization and Welfare

Zhou, Yiming; Zeng, Dao-Zhi - 2012

We investigate the issue of offshoring in a model of two countries and one sector of increasing returns to scale. Our … model uncovers that in a setting of footloose capital, offshoring occurs and evolves in an inverted-U pattern when transport … costs decline. This result can explain China's offshoring soaring in the past decades as well as its recent decline. We also …

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Global Value Chains in economic development

Herr, Hansjörg; Dünhaupt, Petra - 2019

Global Value Chains (GVCs) started to play an increasing and key role in the global economy from the 1990s on. The market mechanism in GVCs supports industrialisation in the Global South and under certain conditions product and process upgrading. But GVCs do not lead to the catching-up of...

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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?

Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001

Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...

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Creating competition? : globalisation and the emergence of new technology producers

Athreye, Suma (contributor); Cantwell, John (contributor) - 2005

This paper studies the emergence of new countries as contributors to technology generation in the world economy and assesses the relationship between this and globalisation (through trade, inward FDI and international migration). It considers two measures of technology generation, viz. a...

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Shedding New Light on Multinational Corporations and Human Rights : Promises and Limits of 'Blockchainizing' the Global Supply Chain

Tsai, Chang-hsien; Lin, Ching-Fu - 2023

Over the last few decades, advances in transportation and production technology, in conjunction with economic globalization and the emergence of multinational corporations, have consolidated fragmented production processes into long and complex supply chains across jurisdictions. While there are...

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Proactive Fast-Tracking Diffusion of Supermarkets in Developing Countries : Implications for Market Institutions and Trade

Reardon, Thomas - 2010

Supermarkets have spread extremely rapidly in developing countries after the take-off in the early to mid-1990s. Former analyses of supermarket diffusion have not adequately explained the sudden burst and then exponential diffusion of supermarkets in the late 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that...

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