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

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  • Wladimir Andreff

    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

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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  • Wladimir Andreff, 2009. "Outsourcing in the new strategy of multinational companies: Foreign direct investment, international subcontracting and production relocation," Post-Print halshs-00443699, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00443699
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    1. Allen J. Scott, 2012. "A World in Emergence," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 15038.
    2. Wladimir Andreff, 2015. "Maturing Strategies Of Russian Multinational Companies: Comparisons With Chinese Multinationals," Post-Print halshs-01287431, HAL.
    3. repec:wsr:wpaper:y:2012:i:077 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Sanda Renko & Alica Grilec Kauric & Mario Lesina, 2014. "Dealing With Crisis: Using Subcontracting For The Development Of The Croatian Leather Manufacturing And Processing Industry," Interdisciplinary Management Research, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics, Croatia, vol. 10, pages 463-474.
    5. Andreff Wladimir & Balcet Giovanni, 2011. "Emerging multinational companies investing in developed countries: at odds with the HOS theorem?," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 201107, University of Turin.
    6. Blanas, Sotiris, 2012. "Intra-firm trade and employment in US manufacturing," Kiel Advanced Studies Working Papers 458, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    7. Emiliano Brancaccio, Orsola Costantini, Stefano Lucarelli, 2015. "Crisi e centralizzazione del capitale finanziario (Crysis and Centralization of Financial Capital)," Moneta e Credito, Economia civile, vol. 68(269), pages 53-79.

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