on the fragmentation of the global economy, looking in particular at the dynamics of friend-shoring, near-shoring and …, leading to the first signs of overall trade fragmentation along geopolitical lines, i.e. friend-shoring. Trade in goods …

production. While International Outsourcing attracted huge attention within the last decade, the sector bias of International … Outsourcing still provides several gaps for theoretical as well as empirical research. This theses tries to contribute to fill … some of these gaps. The first manuscript empirically investigates measurement differences of International Outsourcing and …