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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty
Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 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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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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Global Sourcing
Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2004
We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...
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"Slicing the value chain" internationally : empirical evidence on the offshoring strategy by French firms
Jabbour, Liza (contributor) - 2008
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"Slicing the value chain" internationally : empirical evidence on the offshoring strategy by French firms
Jabbour, Liza - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 35 (2012) 11, pp. 1417-1447
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
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Information technology and global sourcing
Fromenteau, Philippe - 2016
South. Offshoring to South however is subject to costly communication reflected by partially incomplete contracting. More …
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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011
Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014
While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies has given rise to discussions concerning job losses and de-industrialisation, developments in the host countries of relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with...
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The new paradigm of international production : empirical evidence of Spanish offshoring activities
Matías Batalla, David de - 2016
mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011512752
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2011
firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing … ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273125