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Productivity, Relationship-Specific Inputs and the Sourcing Modes of Multinationals

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms which are part of a multinational network. We present a framework in which firms decide to import from a foreign independent supplier or from their related party abroad...

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Global Sourcing of Heterogeneous Firms : Theory and Evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2015

input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts … offshoring throughout all industries, with the effect increasing monotonically in the sourcing intensity. Our results lend strong …

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Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing

Chen, Yongmin; Horstmann, Ignatius J; Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

There exist two approaches in the literature concerning the multinational firm's mode choice for foreign production between an owned subsidiary and a licensing contract. One approach considers environments where the firm is transferring primarily knowledge-based assets. An important assumption...

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Productivity, relationship-specific inputs and the sourcing modes of multinationals

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 94 (2013) C, pp. 345-357

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Global Sourcing Decisions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - CESifo - 2009

distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm’s choice is …

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Dalla crisi allo sviluppo: quali strategie per le PMI?

Birolo, Adriano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

phase of large internationalization of the traditional regional productive network. These processes of external outsourcing …

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Productivity and the sourcing modes of multinational firms: evidence from French firm-level data

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

assume higher fixed costs under outsourcing and a firm-specific production function. We use detailed French firm-level data …

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R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry

Huang, Can; Qu, Zhe; Zhang, Mingqian; Zhao, Yanyun - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging … China shows that R&D offshoring has a positive effect on the intensity of the R&D of host country firms. However, the …&D offshoring diminishes as the geographical distance between the multinational and host country firms increases. …

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R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry

Huang, Can; Qu, Zhe; Zhang, Mingqian; Zhao, Yanyun - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: How important is ICT?

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - 2005

This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...

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