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Industrial Upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Competitive Impact of China on Supplier Linkage Development Potentials of Resident Asian Entrepreneurs

Nal, Abdelrasaq - 2009

hypothesis of the paper that the potential spillover impact of Asian direct investment on local supplier development in Africa is …

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Production Outsourcing, Organizational Governance and Firm's Technological Performance : Evidence from Italy

Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2007

Aim of this paper is to study whether and how the firm's decision to outsource production activities affects its technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firm's governance strategy and the underlying attributes of the transactions affects the capacity of...

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How Multi-Sourcing Can Influence Management Control : Case Study Evidence From the Electronic Products Supply Chain

O'Connor, Neale G.; Schloetzer, Jason D.; Romero, Jorge; … - 2022

This study investigates how multi-sourcing can influence the use of management controls in the presence of varying buyer-supplier power dependencies. Multi-sourcing is an interorganizational design choice that can help buyers collect valuable information to facilitate cost and performance...

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Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory

Schmitz, Patrick W. - 2023

show that if negotiations after the investment stage require transaction costs to be paid, then ownership matters even when …

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Drivers of the Offshore Outsourcing of R&D : Empirical Evidence from French Manufacturers

Zuniga, Maria Pluvia; Jabbour, Liza - 2009

The pace of technological change and the challenges faced by companies to remain competitive in global markets have contributed to a global expansion of R&D transactions. This paper shows that French companies engaged in the offshore outsourcing of R&D are outward oriented essentially through...

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Parent-Affiliate Coordination and Intra-firm Trade

Blanas, Sotiris; Seric, Adnan - 2023

-to-affiliate (i.e., intra-firm) transfers of different types of tacit knowledge (e.g. technology and know-how) for coordination …-operability. Also, we provide novel evidence on positive associations of the importance of parent-affiliate coordination in technology … and know-how with the probability of foreign affiliates of assisting their local suppliers through technology and know …

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When Should a Firm Employ its Workers? A Relational Contracting Approach

Schöttner, Anja; Upton, Harvey - 2022

A principal contracts with an agent to repeatedly perform a task. The principal can choose between two organizational forms, employment or solo self-employment of the agent. A key distinction between the organizational forms is that, under employment, the principal is allowed to stipulate how...

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The transformation of the automotive industry toward electrification and its impact on global value chains : inter-plant competition, employment, and supply chains

Rísquez Ramos, Mario; Ruiz-Gálvez, María Eugenia - In: European research on management and business economics 30 (2024) 1, pp. 1-12

The automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation in its transition to production of electric vehicles. This paper seeks to examine the main transformations taking place in global value chains in the automotive industry as a result of this transition. The analysis follows a...

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Determinants of Firm Boundaries: Empirical Analysis of the Japanese Auto Industry from 1984 to 2002

Nagaoka, Sadao; Takeishi, Akira; Noro, Yoshihisa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

suggests that the hold-up risk due to specific investment can be often effectively controlled by a relational contracting based …

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Outsourcing and Technological Change

Bartel, Ann P.; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

suppliers, who can afford to use the latest technology, becomes relatively cheaper. The predictions of the model are tested …

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