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on enterprise offshoring behaviour, with offshoring to regions outside of the advanced European Union's economies being …
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Understanding the drivers of international production fragmentation is an important issue for Latin American and Caribbean countries because participation in global production networks can help mitigate instability due to dependence on natural resources and can provide opportunities for further...
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This study sheds light on how Costa Rica’s insertion in global value chains occurs by examining governance patterns, the type of activities involved, and the level of underlying innovation in the selected value chain. The paper describes in detail two case studies of electronic-related...
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This study is an effort to identify the process by which firms venture into GVCs and the obstacles faced by firms once they have been immersed in it. We have focused on two particular GVCs: the aerospace GVC and the software and IT services GVC. Through the case studies, we analyzed the nature...
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Wachstum und Beschäftigung waren herauszuarbeiten. Mögliche Ursachen dieser Entwicklung wie Konzentrations-, Outsourcing- und …
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The paper analyses the offshore outsourcing of IT services (OOIT), which have become increasingly important for the … US and Europe, incorporating the hidden costs of offshoring - including long-term risks and opportunities - in order to … determine the total cost of offshore outsourcing activities. The debate on the potential future negative employment impacts in …
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outsourcing and the lowest in foreign vertical integration. We find that robot adopters fragment their production further by … probability of adoption intensifies the effects on outsourcing and weakens the effects on vertical integration. In contrast to …
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This paper unveils a systematic pattern in the People's Republic of China's (PRC) processing trade. In a cross-section of the PRC's provinces, the average distance traveled by processing imports (import distance) is negatively correlated with the average distance traveled by processing exports...
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countries the level of outsourcing reached its limits at the beginning of the new millennium. At the same time, the offshoring … expenditures approach that allows us to consistently analyse the role of i) outsourcing, ii) offshoring and iii) changes in final …
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engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …
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