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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics: Competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty
Navarro, Leandro - 2021
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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Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from the literature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …
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Relocation, offshoring and labour market repercussions: The case of the German automobile industry in Central Europe
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2006
of competitive pressure: relocation of assembly operations and offshoring of automotive parts production. The knowledge …
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Analysis based on questionnaire on the situation of fruit producers in the South and South-East area of the country
Chetroiu, Rodica; Iurchevici, Lidia - 2017
The paper is part of the research undertaken under ADER Project 16.1.2 - Models of development of short chains of valorisation on the pathway primary production-services-warehousing-processing-marketing, Stage 3. To diagnose the situation of fruit producers, a number of 153 questionnaires were...
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Location choices of multinational companies in Ukraine
Zvirgzde, Daria; Schiller, Daniel; Diez, Javier Revilla - 2013
There has been a wide acknowledgement of the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) for economic growth and development of states, regions and cities. Special attention has been paid to FDI flows to transition economies, which owe their economic and social transformation to a large extent to...
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Relational Contracts and Supplier Turnover in the Global Economy
Fischer, Christian; Suedekum, Jens; Defever, Fabrice - 2016
Headquarters and their specialized component suppliers have a vital interest in establishing long-term collaborations. When formal contracts are not enforceable, such efficiency-enhancing cooperations can be established via informal agreements, but relational contracts have been largely ignored...
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The effects of cultural distance on multi-unit firms
Rydzek, Benedikt; Egger, Peter; Riezman, Raymond - 2015
In this paper we develop a model to analyze the effects of (country-pair-specific) costs of creating, transferring and accessing intangible assets for multi-unit firms. These costs might vary with the cultural distance between countries, such as the difference in language, work ethics or other...
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Income Inequality and Export Prices Across Countries
Janeba, Eckhard; Flach, Lisandra - 2015
This paper provides first firm-level evidence on the links between income inequality within a country and the patterns of trade and export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which relates income inequality to product quality and prices using a simple demand...
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Quality and Gravity in International Trade
Unger, Florian; Flach, Lisandra - 2017
We show that the effect of fixed costs on international trade is lower in industries with a high degree of vertical product differentiation. We extend an international trade model by endogenous quality investmetns and use both aggregate trade data and firm-level data to estimate gravity...
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Culture and Global Sourcing
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 2015
This paper develops a model of global sourcing with culturally dissimilar countries. Production of final goods requires the coordination of decisions between the headquarter of a multinational firm and managers of their component suppliers. Managers of both units are assumed to have strong...
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