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 …

. As intellectual property protection strengthened in countries with lower production costs, outsourcing may have become … and outsourcing were on the rise. Controlling for variables related to factor costs, gravity model determinants, and …