Serving the World - Sustainability?

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Outsourcing Strategies of Emerging Country Firms : Are they Different from Developed Country Multinationals?

The purpose of the paper is to analyze differences in the sourcing strategies of manufacturing firms from emerging and from developed markets. More specifically, we test whether manufacturers from emerging markets have other objectives when sourcing from within their countries or from international sources, as compared to firms in developed markets. Contingency effects of the business strategy followed are taken into account. The key findings are that companies that source globally try to achieve cost benefits; companies that source nationally try to achieve capacity flexibility. However, firms do not differ dependent on whether they are located in emerging or in developed markets. Within the group of firms from emerging markets, there is a substantial difference depending on whether firms originate from an emerging market and subsidiaries of companies from developed markets. The discussion is based on a statistical analysis of data from 569 firms collected in the fourth round of the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS