Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocation

The article is dealing in the first place with the definition of (offshore) outsourcing in relation with foreign direct investment and international subcontracting process, as well as with some connected issues such as fragmentation of the production process, international production relocation, de-...

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Autor: Andreff, Wladimir
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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5310 Economía Internacional
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spelling Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocationAndreff, WladimirF14J23L6OffshoringOutsourcingNew strategy of multinational companiesEconomía internacionalTrabajo5310 Economía InternacionalThe article is dealing in the first place with the definition of (offshore) outsourcing in relation with foreign direct investment and international subcontracting process, as well as with some connected issues such as fragmentation of the production process, international production relocation, de-industrialisation in developed countries and industrialisation in newly industrialising, now coined emerging countries. In the second place, it aims at finding how global strategy differentiates from traditional MNC strategies and how much outsourcing fits with such global strategy. The last section of the article briefly screens the economic impact of outsourcing on the world trade structure – with the two enlightening snapshots of global trade in sports goods and European Union 15’s outward processing trade with Central Eastern European countries (CEECs)-, as well as on home developed and host emerging countries. The article conclusion is that outsourcing has grown faster than world trade in the past two decades and has skyrocketed during the very last years because it is a cornerstone of a new global strategy adopted by multinational companies since the late 1980s.Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI)Universidad Complutense de Madrid20092009-01-0120092009-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43317reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Atribución 3.0 Españahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/433172026-06-02T12:44:21Z
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title Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocation
spellingShingle Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocation
Andreff, Wladimir
F14
J23
L6
Offshoring
Outsourcing
New strategy of multinational companies
Economía internacional
Trabajo
5310 Economía Internacional
title_short Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocation
title_full Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocation
title_fullStr Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocation
title_full_unstemmed Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocation
title_sort Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: foreign investment, international subcontracting and production relocation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Andreff, Wladimir
author Andreff, Wladimir
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv F14
J23
L6
Offshoring
Outsourcing
New strategy of multinational companies
Economía internacional
Trabajo
5310 Economía Internacional
topic F14
J23
L6
Offshoring
Outsourcing
New strategy of multinational companies
Economía internacional
Trabajo
5310 Economía Internacional
description The article is dealing in the first place with the definition of (offshore) outsourcing in relation with foreign direct investment and international subcontracting process, as well as with some connected issues such as fragmentation of the production process, international production relocation, de-industrialisation in developed countries and industrialisation in newly industrialising, now coined emerging countries. In the second place, it aims at finding how global strategy differentiates from traditional MNC strategies and how much outsourcing fits with such global strategy. The last section of the article briefly screens the economic impact of outsourcing on the world trade structure – with the two enlightening snapshots of global trade in sports goods and European Union 15’s outward processing trade with Central Eastern European countries (CEECs)-, as well as on home developed and host emerging countries. The article conclusion is that outsourcing has grown faster than world trade in the past two decades and has skyrocketed during the very last years because it is a cornerstone of a new global strategy adopted by multinational companies since the late 1980s.
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