Strategic Outsourcing under Economies of Scale

Yutian Chen and Debapriya Sen

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Abstract: Economies of scale in upstream production can lead both disintegrated downstream firms as well as its vertically integrated rival to outsource offshore for intermediate goods, even if offshore production has moderate cost disadvantage compared to in-house production of the vertically integrated firm.

Keywords: Outsourcing; Economies of Scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 L11 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02-01
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