Market Thickness, Sunk Entry Costs, Firm Heterogeneity and the Outsourcing Decision: Empirical Evidence of Manufacturing Firms in France
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- 1 January 2008
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
In this paper I investigate, empirically, the outsourcing strategy by firms in French manufacturing industries. I particularly focus on the effect of the marketKeywords
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