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Internationalization of production in central European countries : what are the consequences for the labor market?

D̆urc̆ová, Julia; Stelmakh, Karina - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 27 (2025) 68, pp. 128-144

offshoring) and skill-biased technological change (represented by the intensity of investments in intangible capital) impact the … the panel data indicates that offshoring has a negative impact on the employment share of low- and medium-skilled labor … offshoring strikes low-skilled labor hardest. Furthermore, it has been confirmed that the increasing intensity of investment in …

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Location of firms and outsourcing

Colombo, Stefano; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Games 14 (2023) 6, pp. 1-20

firm-specific input suppliers when the final goods producers undertake complete outsourcing or bi-sourcing. Under complete … outsourcing, the final goods producers locate closer as the distance between the input suppliers decreases, but the distance … the final goods producers, and creates effects which are opposite to those under complete outsourcing. Thus, our results …

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Synchronized Factories: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Era of Global Value Chains

Blyde, Juan S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and firms' e-learning use : implications for inequality in training opportunities

Müller, Christoph - In: Journal for labour market research 58 (2024) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper investigates whether the adoption of E-learning by firms contributed to offset the decrease in firm-sponsored training during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a novel firm level survey linked with administrative data on the universe of workers within those firms, I study the role of...

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Is supply chain risk mitigation affected by organisational design? : the roles of organic structures and cultures

González-Zapatero, Carmen; González-Benito, Javier; … - In: European research on management and business economics 30 (2024) 2, pp. 1-12

The objective of this paper is to investigate the potential of organisational design as a potent approach to supply chain risk management (SCRM). Using contingency theory, the current research distinguishes between two design options: organic and mechanistic organisations, both at the structural...

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Is government contract a driver of trade credit? : the moderating role of bargaining power, financial and institutional constraints

Ha Tran Manh; Doan Ngoc Thang; Luong Van Dat; Do Phu Dong; … - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-27

This paper studies the effect of government contracts on trade credit by using cross-country firm-level data. Trade credit is defined as a firm's deferral of payment to its sellers when it buys material inputs. We apply the instrumental variable to take into account the endogeneity problem...

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The manufacturing reshoring phenomenon : a policy-oriented analysis of factors driving the location decision

Bornert, Xavier; Musolino, Dario - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 5, pp. 1-19

For several decades, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have offshored their manufacturing activities to low-cost countries to achieve significant productivity gains. However, changes in the relative competitiveness of countries, social effects of deindustrialization in advanced economies and the...

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Chinese firms and adherence to global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards in developing countries : is there potential to create common ground?

Morris, Mike - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

This paper focuses on analysing how Chinese firms operate in Latin America, Asia and Africa in regard to ESG (environmental, social and governance) standards and sustainability issues. How do they respond to the increasing global value chain requirement to incorporate and maintain ESG standards?...

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Family firms types based on beliefs

Manzano-García, Guadalupe; Neveu, Jean-Pierre; … - In: European research on management and business economics 29 (2023) 3, pp. 1-9

The purpose of this study was to find an effective way of identifying homogeneous family firm groups, based on the prevailing beliefs of the owning family on ownership, management and intergenerational transmission. We conducted a two-stage cluster analysis, using data from a representative...

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Evaluation of outsourcing development in the service sector

Dudė, Ugnė; Žitkienė, Rima; Jurevičienė, Daiva; … - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-19

the range of services provided and the whole service sector. Outsourcing is used to adapt to business environment changes …. However, in the scholarly literature, outsourcing of services is analysed as a complementary part of the manufacturing process … - there is a lack of research on outsourcing in service companies. This article analyses the enablers of outsourcing in all …

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