Outsourcing to Multinational firms:A Growth Model of Chinese Firms
Previous researches often regard outsourcing as a one-direction game led by multinational corporations (MNCs).This paper presents a new pattern of outsourcing and a new approach of learning which is called reverse outsourcing.Firms in low-wage countries outsourcing to MNCs are becoming project owners.Why there exists such a twist? What is the premise,conditions and mechanism of this emergence? What is its significance for LDC firms? From the example of two Chinese auto manufacturers,Chery and Geely,this paper describes the mechanism and motives of reverse outsourcing under game theory framework.This paper presents how LDC firms learn and upgrade and divide such process into three discontinuous periods:learning,cooperation and competition.Each period is analyzed respectively.By outsourcing to multinationals Chinese firms grow up and finally enter international markets, indicating reverse outsourcing is a feasible strategy for less-developed countries to upgrade.
Reverse Outsourcing Less-developed Countries (LDCs) Multinational Corporations (MNCs) Growth Learning
Danlu Liu Jianghuai Zheng
School of Economics,Nanjing University.Nanjing 210093,China
国际会议
西安
英文
459-466
2010-08-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）