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Locating operations in high labor cost countries – Evidence from Spain

Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management

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Title Locating operations in high labor cost countries – Evidence from Spain
 
Creator Diaz, Angel; IE Business School
Mendoça-Tachizawa, Elcio; Universidad Carlos III
 
Subject Outsourcing; location decision; reshoring; offshoring; inshoring
 
Description The location of operations in high labor cost countries is increasingly discussed in the media, in part for recent declarations and actions from the president of USA, Donald Trump. While this particular instance can be labeled as populist or protectionist, the factors underlying the debate are extremely important: advances in systematic increases in productivity, low population growth, and the transfer of jobs to countries with lower labor costs are creating unemployment and underemployment in developed countries that could eventually result in protectionism and restrictions to free trade. This phenomenon has enormous social and economic implications, and has attracted considerable interest from researchers. In particular, this study provides empirical evidence of the location of manufacturing and services in the context of a European country (Spain), exploring the drivers, social implications and organizational theories that can explain it.
 
Publisher FGV/EAESP
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2017-06-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/joscm/article/view/63316
10.12660/joscmv10n1p3-16
 
Source Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management; Vol 10, No 1 (2017): January - June; 3-16
Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management; Vol 10, No 1 (2017): January - June; 3-16
1984-3046
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/joscm/article/view/63316/pdf_1
 
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