作者: Masaaki Kotabe , Hongxin Zhao
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摘要: This paper presents a taxonomic study of sourcing strategy types and their relationships to subsidiary profitability. Using the approach, this identifies five based on decision rules direction volume activities, namely market access, offshore platform, manufacturing, local sourcing, complex sourcing. We validated these by linking them set business investment strategic factors. Based sample 319 foreign subsidiaries in China, results confirm taxonomy indicating that indeed vary along factors including wage rates, R&D intensity, size, capital commitment, ownership control partner type.