TY - JOUR
T1 - Globalization of Production and Innovation: How Outsourcing is Reshaping an Advanced Manufacturing Area
AU - Cusmano, Lucia
AU - Mancusi, Maria Luisa
AU - Morrison, Andrea
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper investigates the determinants and the spatial and functional dimensions of firms’ outsourcing. Based on a large survey of manufacturing firms in Lombardy, Italy, the analysis shows that outsourcing is remarkably wide across sectors and has a clear regional dimension, concerning highly skilled firms at most. Offshoring is still a minor fraction of the deverticalization process, largely related to wider strategies of internationalization by foreign group subsidiaries at intermediate stages of the value chain. The evidence suggests the regional system is inserting onto global knowledge networks, but also points at the risk of ‘branch plant effects’ in high-technology segments.
AB - This paper investigates the determinants and the spatial and functional dimensions of firms’ outsourcing. Based on a large survey of manufacturing firms in Lombardy, Italy, the analysis shows that outsourcing is remarkably wide across sectors and has a clear regional dimension, concerning highly skilled firms at most. Offshoring is still a minor fraction of the deverticalization process, largely related to wider strategies of internationalization by foreign group subsidiaries at intermediate stages of the value chain. The evidence suggests the regional system is inserting onto global knowledge networks, but also points at the risk of ‘branch plant effects’ in high-technology segments.
KW - Italy
KW - Manufacturing industry
KW - Offshoring
KW - Outsourcing
KW - Regional production system
KW - Italy
KW - Manufacturing industry
KW - Offshoring
KW - Outsourcing
KW - Regional production system
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/19780
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cres20/current
U2 - 10.1080/00343400802360451
DO - 10.1080/00343400802360451
M3 - Article
SN - 0034-3404
VL - 44
SP - 235
EP - 252
JO - Regional Studies
JF - Regional Studies
ER -