Offshoring: a multi-country study of FDI in high-technology sectors

Yama Temouri; Nigel Driffield; Dolores Añón Higón

Offshoring: a multi-country study of FDI in high-technology sectors

Yama Temouri, Nigel Driffield, Dolores Añón Higón

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This paper examines what is still a relatively new phenomenon in the literature, the outsourcing / offshoring of high technology manufacturing and services. This has become a concern for both policy makers and academics for two reasons. Firstly, policy makers have become concerned that the offshoring of high technology sectors in the West will follow the more labour intensive sectors, and move to lower cost locations. Secondly, international business theory has tended to view low costs, and high levels of indigenous technological development as being the two main drivers of location advantage in the attraction of FDI. We show that this may not be the case for offshored high technology manufacturing or services.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Birmingham (UK)
Publisher	Aston University
Volume	RP0817
ISBN (Print)	9781-85449-740-6
Publication status	Published - Dec 2008

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Publisher	Aston University
No.	RP0817

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outsourcing
offshoring
high technology
manufacturing
services

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Multi-country study of FDI in high-technology sectors
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The future of offshoring FDI in high-tech sectors
Temouri, Y., Driffield, N. L. & Añón Higón, D., Nov 2010, In: Futures. 42, 9, p. 960–970 11 p.
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