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On the organizational structure of multinational firms: Which sourcing mode for which Input?

Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012

Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...

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On the organizational structure of multinational firms: Which sourcing mode for which input?

Suedekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian - 2012

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Competitiveness - Residency Base versus Ownership Base - in Case of Japan

Inaba, Kazuo - 2006

This paper examines the competitiveness of Japanese firms in the manufacturing sector since the middle of 1980s when … the Japanese FDI outflow was accelerated. Instead of a standard residency-based balance of trade, we use the idea of … ownership-based net foreign sales introduced by DeAnne Julius (1990, 1991). The calculated results show that the Japanese …

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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...

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A reexamination and extension of international strategy-structure theory

Wolf, Joachim; Egelhoff, William G. - 2001

Using a sample of 95 German firms, the study finds general support for the traditional fits of international strategy-structure theory. Employing an information-processing perspective, the study conceptually and empirically extends existing theory (1) to address strategy-structure fit for...

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Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services: Evidence from German micro-data

Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012

We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...

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Der Intrafirmenhandel deutscher US-Tochterunternehmen

Matthes, Jürgen - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 33 (2006) 4, pp. 17-31

Der Intrafirmenhandel deutscher US-Tochterunternehmen macht rund die Hälfte der gesamten US-Importe aus Deutschland aus. Dabei besteht das Gros des US-Intrafirmenimports aus Straßenfahrzeugen und entsprechenden Teilen. Der Handel der deutschen US-Töchter mit Deutschland war im Jahr 2002 wie...

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Growing Trade in Intermediate Goods: Outsourcing, Global Sourcing or Increasing Importance of MNE Networks?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the increasing importance of MNE networks. These hypotheses are...

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The Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Swedish Multinationals 1998

Ekholm, Karolina; Hesselman, Marie - 2000

This paper presents the results of a survey of Swedish multinationals conducted in 1999. The survey was carried out in order to update an existing database on Swedish manufacturing firms with producing foreign affiliates collected by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI). The...

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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? The growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries

Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011

We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...

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