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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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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277412
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International Outsourcing and the Supply Side Productivity Determinants
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2021
A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone …, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm's productivity. Academic … perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316837
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Uncertainty in Global Sourcing : Learning, Sequential Offshoring, and Selection Patterns
Larch, Mario; Navarro, Leandro - 2022
uncertainty by observing offshoring firms’ behaviour. The model characterises a sequential offshoring equilibrium path, led by the … Colombia, we test for the determinants and timing of offshoring decisions. We also derive spatial probit structural models to … identify the firms’ dynamic trade-off when they decide on the offshoring location. We find supportive evidence for the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242796
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On the organizational structure of multinational firms: Which sourcing mode for which Input?
Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the indirect … outsourcing of the less important supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282060
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Optimal Ownership and Firm Performance : An Analysis of China's FDI Liberalization
Eppinger, Peter S.; Ma, Hong - 2023
Seminal theories of the firm posit that firm ownership is allocated to minimize contractual inefficiencies. Yet, it remains unclear how much the optimal ownership choice affects firm performance in practice. This paper provides a first quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346399
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Technology Transfer in Global Value Chains
Sampson, Thomas - 2022
how this distinction affects the returns to offshoring, the welfare effects of technical change and the social efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307214
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Institutions and Offshoring Decision
Nicolini, Marcella - 2021
establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is … the first attempt to test whether institutions matter differentially across different sectors in FDI decision. Using data … affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316890
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International outsourcing and the supply side productivity determinants
Grover, Arti - 2007
A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone …, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm's productivity. Academic … perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264201
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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2008
The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to low-wage economies. This trend … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii …) it increases inequality among high- and low-income groups; and (iii) the gains from outsourcing can be made Pareto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264480