This paper analyses the effect of offshoring (i.e., the relocation of activities previously performed in-house to …, we find that offshoring is a rare event: In the sample of firms with 50 or more persons employed, only about 3% of … manufacturing firms and 1% of business service firms have performed offshoring in the period 2014-2016. Second, difference …

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … foreign suppliers, due to costly communication. Triggered by foreign countries' export supply shocks, firms start offshoring … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects …

countries the level of outsourcing reached its limits at the beginning of the new millennium. At the same time, the offshoring … expenditures approach that allows us to consistently analyse the role of i) outsourcing, ii) offshoring and iii) changes in final …

offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home … innovation than non-offshoring firms. These results support a view on internationalisation of firms that regards offshoring as a …

This paper reviews the recent literature on the relocation of headquarters (HQs). Overall results show that full and … small although results seem to depend on the motivation behind the relocation. For nations, the unbundling of HQs implies … headquarters ; divisional headquarters ; corporate ; mobility ; relocation ; multinational corporations ; taxation ; FDI ; foreign …