Diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance

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Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe's digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported ICT goods in the years 2010 and 2014. We find that firms that diversify the sourcing of ICT goods across multiple countries perform better than similar firms with a less diversified sourcing structure. This result holds for value added as well as for gross operational surplus as performance measures and for two different indicators of diversification.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 23-025

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks ; Organization of Production ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
• Thema: ICT goods imports ; global sourcing ; digital sovereignty ; firm performance

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schiersch, Alexander ; Bertschek, Irene ; Niebel, Thomas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/274020