The Impact of Offshoring on Firm’s Exports

  1. Carmen Martínez-Mora 1
  2. Fernando Merino de Lucas 2
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05t8bcz72

  2. 2 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Journal:
Revista de economía mundial

ISSN: 1576-0162

Year of publication: 2019

Issue: 53

Pages: 203-222

Type: Article

DOI: 10.33776/REM.V0I53.4024 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openArias Montano editor

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Abstract

Offshoring is a strategy that has been widely used as a mean to reduce costs, increase firms’ productivity and flexibility. Consequently, it is aimed to improve the competitive situation of the firm in its markets. But beyond this effect, we depart from international business literature, the resourcebased view and transaction cost economics to argue that offshore helps firms to export, not only because it increases its productivity and flexibility but because it provides some knowledge and expertise to develop themselves in international markets. Departing from this framework, we present an empirical study over Spanish manufacturers that confirms that firms that offshore export more, and that this extra effect is larger in small firms than in large ones.

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