Organizational forms for global engagement of firms

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Global engagement of firms can take a variety of forms. We argue that there are considerable advantages of developing models that allow for a wide set of alternatives of organizational form. We illustrate this firstly using plant level data which allows us to distinguish firms that serve only the domestic market, firms that export final goods abroad, firms that outsource abroad the production of some of the intermediate inputs abroad, firms that own foreign plants abroad, and firms that do more than one of those activities. In our estimation we consider the relationship between productivity all the choice of organizational form. We then present a simple model of the firm that is flexible enough to capture the trade-offs between a great variety of organizational forms.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1448

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements ; Multinational Firms; International Business
• Subject: Organizational forms ; multinationals ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Organisationsstruktur ; Internationale Markteintrittsstrategie ; Produktivität ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Schätzung ; Irland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bogheas, Sprios ; Görg, Holger
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24843
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET