convinced that cost considerations should reign as the predominant decision-making factor; others argue that outsourcing means … permanent job loss; and still others believe outsourcing makes U.S. goods and services more competitive in the global … marketplace. We assert that if outsourcing options need to be analyzed in detail with critical objectivity in order to derive …

Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby …

different stages of production as a fundamental economic force behind outsourcing. Among other things, it is shown that … outsourcing occurs in the following two extreme/opposite scenarios in terms of production and characteristics of the good: either …

Offshore outsourcing - the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries - is one of the defining features of globalization … work of globalization. Even though the majority of corporations make some use of offshore outsourcing, fearful of negative …

decoupling between the world's two largest economies. Results based on gravity model regressions with high-dimensional fixed … other hand, we find no evidence of an increased regionalisation of world trade since the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic or … the war in Ukraine. Therefore, our results suggest that near-shoring strategies did not have a large impact on world trade …