The effect of operational flexibility on decisions to withdraw from foreign production locations

Volume: 21, Issue: 5, Pages: 806 - 816
Published: Oct 1, 2012
Abstract
null null Research on international divestment has identified a variety of factors that influence the closure of individual subsidiaries. Drawing on the concept of operational flexibility, this paper investigates the flexibility characteristics of an international production network to predict divestments of elements of this network. The analysis of 596 production locations of 189 German manufacturing firms reveals that the decision to divest a...
Paper Details
Title
The effect of operational flexibility on decisions to withdraw from foreign production locations
Published Date
Oct 1, 2012
Volume
21
Issue
5
Pages
806 - 816
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