The role of linkages in firm performance: evidence from southern Italy

Mazzola, Fabio; Bruni, Sergio Fabian Sanchez

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“…Our working hypothesis is that subcontracting firms, when emancipated from their traditional inferior position with respect to the customer, may perform comparably to or even better than other firms. This idea is consistent with the considerations discussed above and with empirical investigations that provide evidence of significant positive relationships between subcontracting and respectively survival rates (MAZZOLA and BRUNI, 2000), rates of return ROE and ROI (INNOCENTI, 2003) or input productivity and returns (GIUNTA and SCALERA, 2007, for Central and Northern Italy firms).…”

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Subcontracting in the Italian Industry: Labour Division, Firm Growth and the North-South Divide

Giunta¹,

Nifo

Scalera

2010

SSRN Journal

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Subcontracting in the Italian Industry: Labour Division, Firm Growth and the North-South Divide

Giunta¹,

Nifo

Scalera

2010

SSRN Journal

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“…Also, Mazzola and Bruni (2000), using firm level data, find that firms that are subcontractors, or produce large shares of output for order, have higher probabilities of "success" (in terms of profitability) than other firms. 4 More precisely, using SIC 1980 classifications, chemicals is SIC 25, mechanical and instrument engineering (hereafter referred to as engineering) includes SIC32 and SIC 37, electronics includes SIC 33 (manufacture of office machinery and data processing equipment) and SIC 34 (electrical and electronic engineering).…”

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Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership, and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment‐level Data

Girma

Görg

2004

Rev International Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AcknowledgementsThe authors are grateful to the ONS Business Data Linking Project for providing access to the ARD database. Thanks are also due to Eric Strobl and participants at the GEP conference on "Adjusting to Globalisation", in particular Steve Redding, for helpful comments and to Richard Upward for providing data from the New Earnings Survey. All remaining errors or omissions are, of course, the authors'. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust (Grant No. F114/BF) is gratefully acknowledged. Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity:Evidence from UK establishment level data by Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg Abstract This paper presents an empirical analysis of "outsourcing" using establishment level data for UK manufacturing industries. We analyse an establishment's decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages are positively related to outsourcing, suggesting that the cost saving motive is important. We also find that foreign-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that this effect is more pronounced for foreign establishments. Outline

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“…2 Görzig and Stephan (2002) find for German manufacturing firms that material and intermediate input subcontracting positively impacts firm performance, but no consistent effect is found for service subcontracting. Other studies reporting a positive relationship between subcontracting and firm performance are, for example, Urata and Kawai (2002) for Japanese firms and Mazzola and Bruni (2000) for a sample of southern Italian small firms. related to the subcontracting decision, causing correlation of explanatory variables and unobserved firm-specific effects.…”

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Production subcontracting and location

Holl

2008

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Using data from a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms, I examine factors that explain firms' production subcontracting decisions and test whether there is any evidence that production subcontracting is facilitated in areas typically associated with higher agglomeration economies. The results show that location matters. Firms in industry agglomerations are more likely to subcontract production activities. While in general, larger and older firms as well as high wage firms show a greater probability for production subcontracting, industry agglomeration particularly facilitates subcontracting for smaller and lower wage firms and it allows firms to respond to a greater degree to expansive demand conditions by taking advantage of subcontracting.JEL classification: D21, L23, L60, R3

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The role of linkages in firm performance: evidence from southern Italy

Cited by 24 publications

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Subcontracting in the Italian Industry: Labour Division, Firm Growth and the North-South Divide

Subcontracting in the Italian Industry: Labour Division, Firm Growth and the North-South Divide

Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership, and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment‐level Data

Production subcontracting and location

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