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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian - 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...

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Supplier Search and Rematching in Global Sourcing - Theory and Evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice - 2018

In this paper, we consider a dynamic search-and-matching problem of a firm with its intermediate input supplier. In our model, a headquarter currently matched with a supplier, has an interest to find and collaborate with a more efficient partner. However, supplier switching through search and...

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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firm's International Sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2021

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

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Global Sourcing Decisions and Firm Productivity : Evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010

distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is …

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2011

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Offshoring along the Production Chain

Harms, Philipp - 2009

parameters may lead to a large increase in offshoring activities …

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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms - Which Sourcing Mode for which Input?

Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 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 …

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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms - Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?

Nowak, Verena Nina; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2021

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 …

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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void

Herkenhoff, Philipp - 2020

the integration vs outsourcing decision - high potential cost savings of ‘unethical' production in an industry favor … international outsourcing and most strongly so for sourcing from low-regulation countries. Motivated by these findings, we introduce …)ethical technology choices of integrated as well as independent suppliers. We identify the unethical outsourcing incentive as a novel …

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Global Sourcing of Heterogeneous Firms : Theory and Evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2015

input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts … offshoring throughout all industries, with the effect increasing monotonically in the sourcing intensity. Our results lend strong …

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