
Abstract
Globalization has been identified by many experts as a new way firms organize their activities and as the emergence of human capital as the new stakeholder of the firm. This paper surveys recent work which examines the role of trade integration for these changes in corporate organization. More intense competition and the change in the pattern of specialization following trade liberalization make it both more likely that an organizational equilibrium emerges in which power is delegated to lower levels of the firms' hierarchy empowering human capital. Furthermore, trade integration leads to waves of outsourcing and to a convergence in corporate cultures across countries.
Item Type: | Paper |
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Keywords: | international trade with imperfect competition ; corporate governance ; theory of the firm ; empowerment ; outsourcing |
Faculties: | Economics Economics > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics Economics > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics > Industrial Organization Economics > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics > International Trade Economics > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics > Institutional Economics Economics > Chairs > Chair of International Economics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
JEL Classification: | F12, D23, L1, L2 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-11-9 |
Signature: | UBM:0800/ZB 16(1993 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 11 |
Date Deposited: | 13. Apr 2005 |
Last Modified: | 05. Nov 2020, 10:47 |