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Murphy, Gavin; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2015

on enterprise offshoring behaviour, with offshoring to regions outside of the advanced European Union's economies being …

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International product fragmentation and the insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks : Colombian case studies

Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Uribe, Maria José - 2012

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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Insertion of Costa Rica in global value chains : a case study

Monge González, Ricardo; Zolezzi, Sandro - 2012

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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Can Mexico set up in the aerospace and the software and IT global value chains as a high-value-added player?

Brown Grossman, Flor; Domínguez Villalobos, Lilia - 2012

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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Positionierung der deutschen Industrie im globalen Konsolidierungsprozess : im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie

Reinhard, Michael; Schedl, Hans - 2007

Wachstum und Beschäftigung waren herauszuarbeiten. Mögliche Ursachen dieser Entwicklung wie Konzentrations-, Outsourcing- und …

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Offshore outsourcing : a global shift in the present IT industry

Erber, Georg; Sayed-Ahmed, Aida - 2005

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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The impact of robot adoption on global sourcing

Cilekoglu, Akin A.; Moreno, Rosina; Ramos, Raúl - 2021

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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Global production networks and the People's Republic of China's processing trade

Ma, Alyson; Van Assche, Ari; Hong, Chang - 2009

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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Offshoring to Promote the Internationalization of Family Firms

Merino, Fernando - 2018

This paper analyses the impact of sourcing abroad on exporting in the case of Spanish manufacturing firms that are family-owned. Sourcing abroad can be a channel that places the firm in a better position to export, not only because it increases the productivity of the firm, but also because it...

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'Globalization' and Relocation in a Vertically Differentiated Industry

Grilo, Isabel - 2013

In this paper, we adopt the vertical differentiation duopoly framework to give a full description of firms' relocation decisions, when the removal either of trade barriers or of restrictions on capital outflows/inflows (globalization) allows them to serve the domestic market through foreign...

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