Complex integration strategies of multinational firms

Stephen Ross Yeaple

Chapter 5 in Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade, 2026, pp 21-24 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry provides an overview of an approach used by multinational firms (MNFs) to organize their international production that is known as complex integration strategies. The entry begins by defining complex integration strategies and explains how they differ from alternative approaches that firms follow to organize international production. The entry then explores the empirical predictions of models of complex integration strategies and what is known about their consistency with the data on multinational production. The entry then discusses the impact of policies on the trade and investment behavior of MNFs that follow complex integration strategies. Finally, the entry concludes with a discussion of how the emerging popularity of these strategies complicates the analysis of spatial quantitative general equilibrium models of international trade and investment and how recent political and technological trends may have affected the nature of complex integration strategies.

Keywords: Complex integration strategies; Multinational firms; Global supply chains; Complementary plant location problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035327492
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