Global sourcing and firm selection

Wilhelm Kohler and Marcel Smolka

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 3, 411-415

Abstract: We analyze the sourcing strategies of firms active in the Spanish manufacturing sector. We show that firms that select strategies of vertical integration and of foreign sourcing ex post tend to have been more productive, ex ante, than other firms.

Keywords: Vertical integration; Offshoring; Firm selection; Firm productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F23 L22 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.06.031

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