Essays on Strategy, Institutions, and Multinationals in Global Supply Chains

This dissertation investigates two major themes: (1) the strategies that global firms use to overcome weak institutions in their outsourcing and (2) how local institutions affected how firms reconfigured their global supply chains in response to the financial crisis. All three papers use a unique da...

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Main Author: Carlsson, Kjell
Other Authors: Alcacer, Juan
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2012
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10224
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9385641