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Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023
Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms' decisions to integrate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313474
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Diversify or not? : the link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance
Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2023
Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe’s digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317645
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Diversify or not? : the link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance
Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2023
Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe’s digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322475
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Cultural Distance, Firm Boundaries, and Global Sourcing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023
Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346366
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Sourcing of services and total factor productivity
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Duprez, Cédric - 2022
goes a long way to explaining both the aggregate trend and the firmlevel fluctuations in services outsourcing growth. Based …This paper studies how outsourcing of services activities affects TFP at the firm level. Using the universe of buyer …-supplier relationships in Belgium, we first document several new empirical facts about how firms engage in the outsourcing of supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013466942
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Modular Production Networks in Electronics: The Nexus between Management and Economics Research
Gangnes, Byron; Assche, Ari Van - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2004
taking place in global electronics production, with vertical fragmentation, horizontal consolidation, and the growth of Asian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824152
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Modular Production Networks in Electronics: the Nexus between Management and Economics Research
Gangnes, Byron; Assche, Ari Van - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2004
taking place in global electronics production, with vertical fragmentation, horizontal consolidation, and the growth of Asian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005091217
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Trust and Contracts: Empirical Evidence
D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2020
Trust between parties should drive the negotiation and design of contract: if parties did not trust each others' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation to complete contracts. Using a unique sample of U.S. principal-agent consulting contracts and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425620
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Trust and contracts: Empirical evidence
D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2022
Trust between parties should drive contract design: if parties were suspicious about each others' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation ex ante to complete contracts. Using a unique sample of U.S. consulting contracts and a negative shock to trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286013
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Trust and contracts : empirical evidence
D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2022
Trust between parties should drive contract design: if parties were suspicious about each others' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation ex ante to complete contracts. Using a unique sample of U.S. consulting contracts and a negative shock to trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279419