This paper explores the relationship between FDI spillovers and productivity in
manufacturing firms in five European transition countries. The novelty of our approach lies in …

The outsourcing and offshoring of services to developing countries has created new
opportunities for economic development for countries in the global South. This paper looks …

There are two aims of this editorial article. The first is to present the current state of research
related to widely defined Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) in the …

Processes of outsourcing and offshoring have driven the changing spatial divisions of labour
through foreign investment and development of peripheral regions into key offshore …

The authors examine the patterns and determinants of spatial distribution of selected
knowledge-intensive business services in Czechia, a small post-communist country whose …

The organizational characteristics of production in the European automotive industry have
favoured a high degree of fragmentation and productive mobility. This article analyses the …

In line with previous studies of the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and
global value chains (GVCs), this work uses national panel data of 31 countries along the …

Kleibert JM Global production networks, offshore services and the branch-plant syndrome,
Regional Studies. This article combines the global production network (GPN) framework …

The changing international division of labour presents opportunities for developing countries
to attract foreign investments and generate employment in the offshore service sector. This …

The changing geography of service employment and the relocation of back-office service
tasks to developing economies present a challenge to contemporary world city network …