Overseas assembly and country sourcing choices
By: Deborah L. Swenson.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10697; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10697.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Offshore assembly industry.
Description: "This paper studies the cross-country pattern of U.S. overseas assembly activities between 1980 and 2000 to examine how outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs.  A number of interesting regularities emerge.  When a country's costs rise, the share of U.S.  overseas assembly activities in that location decline.  Conversely, a country's share of U.S.  overseas assembly activities grows when competitor country costs increase.  While own and competitor country costs affect overseas assembly in all countries, the magnitude of these effects is larger for developing countries than it is for developed countries.  In many cases, the measured responses to cost changes appear to correspond with outsourcing theories that are based on search and customization costs"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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