Sourcing ; Family Firms ; Outsourcing ; Offshoring ; FDI … FDI coexists with international outsourcing, family firms unambiguously decrease FDI, whereas the effect on international … outsourcing is ambiguous: A substitution process may work towards an increase in international outsourcing activities. -- Global …

reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether … of these organizational forms. Better contracting institutions in the South raise the prevalence of offshoring, but may …

South. Offshoring to South however is subject to costly communication reflected by partially incomplete contracting. More …

has to overcome. If production abroad involves a fixed cost, offshoring one intermediate unambiguously facilitates … offshoring of other intermediates. However, if production abroad involves incomplete contracts, offshoring one intermediate …

increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …

; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI … firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing …

integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides … vertical integration and of offshoring tend to have been more productive ex ante than firms choosing not to do so. This finding …

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 …