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 …

-house offshoring to China is a major determinant of Dutch import growth from China. Dutch firms tend to offshore production in …

contributed to a global expansion of R&D transactions. This paper shows that French companies engaged in the offshore outsourcing …

outsourcing of Ramp;D are outward oriented essentially through exports. Further, single unit companies seem more active in this …

mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …