First world-third world linkages: external relations and economic development
In: International organization, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 41-63
ISSN: 0020-8183
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In: International organization, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 41-63
ISSN: 0020-8183
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In: International organization, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 41-63
ISSN: 1531-5088
Recent efforts by North American social scientists to devise systematic empirical tests for a series of propositions purportedly drawn from structural theories of dependency have focused largely on the consequences of foreign economic linkages for the economies of developing countries. Although the results of these tests have been received with considerable skepticism by dependentistas and neo-positivists alike, cross-national, quantitative studies of the dependence-development relationship are not without value: they have focused research on a central problem, namely the effects of various forms of economic linkages on rates and types of economic development. This concentration of research activities, in particular the current spate of replications, has yielded new empirical knowledge concerning these relationships, plus some intriguing conflicting evidence. This is now sufficient to support further inquiry in itself, independent of the confines of dependencia theories which gave rise to the research originally.
In: International organization, Band 34, S. 41-63
ISSN: 0020-8183
In: International Journal, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 656
In: International Journal, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 789
In: Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Volume 19, Issue 4, Fall 2017, Pages 509-712
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In: Management Science
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In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 80, Heft 2, S. 176
ISSN: 2327-7793
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 80, Heft 3, S. 136
ISSN: 2327-7793
In: Canadian foreign policy: La politique étrangère du Canada, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 6-6
ISSN: 2157-0817
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 283
ISSN: 0021-9886
In: Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 4080078
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In: Decision sciences, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 697-726
ISSN: 1540-5915
ABSTRACTOutsourcing of production has escalated over the past decade due to unprecedented competition and worldwide access to low‐cost labor markets. This article examines how cost and quality priorities—two key attributes of manufacturing strategy—influence a manufacturer's propensity to outsource. By doing so, we bridge the existing gap between research on manufacturing strategy and firm boundaries. We develop a theory‐based model that links a manufacturer's cost and quality priorities to its plans to outsource production. Our empirical analyses, based on survey data obtained from 867 manufacturing business units, control for firm‐specific factors previously shown to impact outsourcing, including asset specificity, uncertainty, and current capabilities in cost and quality. We found that the competitive priority placed on cost played an integral role in sourcing decisions, while, surprisingly, conformance quality priorities did not. The cost result is consistent with our expectations and observations in practice. The significant effect of cost priority on outsourcing shows that any theory of firm boundaries that fails to consider competitive priorities is incomplete. The finding regarding quality, which was counter to our expectations, may partially explain why there is an emergence of so many nonconforming products associated with outsourcing. Taken together, our results provide theoretical insights for future research into how manufacturing managers can improve their decision making on outsourcing production.
In: Études internationales, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 337-360
ISSN: 1703-7891
This article depicts the configuration of approaches to the scientific study of foreign policy and international politics in Canada, as represented in a systematic survey of research written in Canada and published in forty scholarly journals, some from as early as 1945 up to 1975. Scientific studies found in this sample were analyzed along four dimensions : theoretical basis ; issue area ; units upon which the investigation is based ; and method of analysis. Scientific study of international relations emerged as a largely recent yet growing phenomenon of the last decade. It constitutes a unique subfield outside the mainstream of research, and is concentrated among a relatively small group of individuals and even fewer institutions. Études internationales emerged as the single most important channel of communication for this subfield in Canada