Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production
44 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2002
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Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production
Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production
Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production
Date Written: December 2002
Abstract
We develop a model in which the heterogeneous firms in an industry choose their modes of organization and the location of their subsidiaries or suppliers. We assume that the principals of a firm are constrained in the nature of the contracts they can write with suppliers or employees. Our main result concerns the sorting of firms with different productivity levels into different organizational forms. We use the model to examine the implications of falling trade costs for the relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment.
Keywords: Outsourcing, Direct Foreign Investment, Theory of the Firm, Intra-firm Trade
JEL Classification: L22, F23, D23
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