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Vertical relatedness and services outsourcing: a firm-level analysis

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  • Giulio Cainelli
  • Roberto Ganau
  • Donato Iacobucci

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This paper analyzes the relationship between local-level vertical relatedness and firms’ services outsourcing, using a data set of 46,671 Italian manufacturing firms observed over the period 1999–2007. The analysis uses a firm-level index of services outsourcing based on the Adelman index, and it proposes a new measure of vertical relatedness. Overall, the results suggest that it is not agglomeration per se that matters for services outsourcing but rather the presence of vertically related industries. The role of firm-level heterogeneity in terms of size, geographic location, and technological regime also emerges.

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  • Giulio Cainelli & Roberto Ganau & Donato Iacobucci, 2019. "Vertical relatedness and services outsourcing: a firm-level analysis," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 28(4), pages 753-771.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:28:y:2019:i:4:p:753-771.
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    1. Sonia Di Giannatale & Itza T. Q. Curiel-Cabral & Jacqueline Chacón, 2021. "Monitoring decisions in vertical integration," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 48(3), pages 441-462, September.

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    JEL classification:

    • L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
    • L6 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • R15 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Methods

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