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Japanese Hybrid Factories in Australia: Analysing Labor Relations and Reflecting on the Work of Tetsuo Abo

Bayari, Celal - 2010

This paper provides an analysis of Japanese hybrid factories in Australia in a context of labor relations aspect of the Japanese management and production system. The paper argues that the labor relations aspect of the Japanese system is the most successful transfer to Australia. In its second...

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Do foreign-owned firms pay more?

Harrison, Ann E.; Scorse, Jason - 2008

This paper uses Indonesian data to analyze the impact of foreign ownership on wages. After controlling for worker and …

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International outsourcing and labour demand: Evidence from Finnish firm-level data

Böckerman, Petri; Riihimäki, Elisa - 2009

We examine the employment effects of international outsourcing by using firm-level data from the Finnish manufacturing sector. A major advantage of our data is that outsourcing is defined based on firms’ actual use of intermediate inputs from foreign trade statistics. The estimates show that...

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South Korean Economy and the Free Trade Agreement with China

Bayari, Celal - 2020

South Korea has had a continuous engagement with significant trade, investment and security matters simultaneously in its relations with other nations. South Korea’s bilateralism with China is a part of a larger milieu which China has been constructing, that includes the Belt and Road...

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Trade Secret Protection in a Developing Economy

Klein, Michael A - 2020

selection generates an endogenous distribution of firm specific wages and positive unemployment in equilibrium. Simulations of …

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Choosing between foreign investment and subcontracting: Strategies of Italian firms in Romania

Tattara, Giuseppe - 2010

Vertical disintegration in most industries and the globalization of markets has led to significant changes in the pattern of international division of labour among manufacturing firms. At the same time increased competition from low cost producers, exchange rate constraints, the opening up of...

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Japanese Business in Australia: A Management Survey of Industry Interaction with Locational Factors

Bayari, Celal - 2004

This is a discussion of research findings on the interaction of the Japanese firms with Australia’s locational factors that affect their investment decisions in Australia. The paper argues that there is a convergence as well as divergence among the sixty-five companies from three industrial...

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Japanese Manufacturers in Australia: Analysing Their Quality Evaluation and Employee Participation

Bayari, Celal - 2010

The characteristics of Japanese transnational automotive and electronic manufacturers in their overseas operations form a major topic of analysis. This paper discusses the data from Japanese electronics and automotive (auto and auto parts) manufacturers that were subjects of the author’s...

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Future Bangalores? The increasing role of Central and Eastern Europe in the global services offshoring market: evidence from trade statistics

Gál, Zoltán - 2010

assumption that an expanding export in other business and ICT services has been associated with offshoring services in the six … additional factors favouring nearshoring (as in CEE locations) over offshoring (e.g. India) and lists several factors besides …

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Why do they just do it? A theory of outsourcing and working conditions

Donado, Alejandro - 2020

working conditions. Despite the overwhelming amount of interest, there exists no theory for studying this topic. The current … manufacturing production to contract factories in the South. Factories pay wages that can compensate for poor working conditions …, but these wages might not meet workers' basic needs. The paper studies an extension under which factory workers are not …

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