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Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs

Why do firms decide to offshore certain parts of their production process? What qualifies certain countries as particularly attractive locations to offshore? In this paper, the authors address these questions with a theory of international production hierarchies in which organizations arise endogenously to make efficient use of agents knowledge.

Geography