Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1448:
Organizational forms for global engagement of firms
Spiros Bougheas and Holger Görg
Abstract: Global engagement of firms can take a variety of forms. We
argue that there are considerable advantages of developing models that
allow for a wide set of alternatives of organizational form. We illustrate
this firstly using plant level data which allows us to distinguish firms
that serve only the domestic market, firms that export final goods abroad,
firms that outsource abroad the production of some of the intermediate
inputs abroad, firms that own foreign plants abroad, and firms that do more
than one of those activities. In our estimation we consider the
relationship between productivity all the choice of organizational form. We
then present a simple model of the firm that is flexible enough to capture
the trade-offs between a great variety of organizational forms
Keywords: Organizational Forms, Multinationals; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F21,; F23; (follow links to similar papers)
18 pages, September 2008
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