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Firm’s innovation and productivity: the case of the international outsourcing

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  • Fariñas, José Carlos

    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • Martín Marcos, Ana

    (UNED)

Abstract

The recent evolution of the international trade has been characterized, among others factors, by an increasing supplying of intermediate inputs in the international markets. In this article these firm’s decisions are analyzed, comparing the characteristics of size, productivity, age, intensity of capital, composition of manpower, innovating effort, costs, participation of foreign capital between the companies that make international outsourcing and those that do not do it. In order to organize the empirical analysis we take as reference the model of Antràs and Helpman (2004) that predicts the companies with greater productivity they select themselves when taking the decision to do international outsourcing. The article offers empirical evidence that confirms this prediction from a sample of Spanish industrial companies of the Encuesta sobre Estrategias Empresariales.

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  • Fariñas, José Carlos & Martín Marcos, Ana, 2009. "Firm’s innovation and productivity: the case of the international outsourcing," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 15, pages 251-275.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:invreg:0097
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    Keywords

    Innovation; entrepreneurial activity; regional competitiveness;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy

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