Offshore Sourcing: Reaction, Maturation, and Consolidation of U.S. Multinationals
The authors conducted a quasi-longitudinal investigation of U.S. multinationals' R&D, manufacturing, offshore sourcing strategies, and resultant global market performance implications, utilizing comprehensive data collected by the 1977, 1982 and 1989 benchmark surveys of U.S. direct investm...
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Published in | Journal of international business studies Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 115 - 140 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Basingstoke
Academy of International Business and Western Business School, University of Western Ontario
01.01.1994
Palgrave Macmillan |
Series | Journal of International Business Studies |
Subjects | |
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Summary: | The authors conducted a quasi-longitudinal investigation of U.S. multinationals' R&D, manufacturing, offshore sourcing strategies, and resultant global market performance implications, utilizing comprehensive data collected by the 1977, 1982 and 1989 benchmark surveys of U.S. direct investment abroad. Hypotheses were tested in a path analytic framework. Despite increased competition at home and abroad causing their global market share positions to weaken in recent years, U.S. multinationals have maintained, and even may have improved, their global consolidated profitability levels by skillfully exploiting their technological prowess through technology transfer and offshore sourcing. Rapidly changing roles of U.S. parent firms and their foreign affiliates in technology development and global sourcing relationships portend a maturing, yet arduous, shift toward a global rationalization. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0047-2506 1478-6990 |
DOI: | 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490195 |