Global Outsourcing or FDI: How Did Apple Launch Its iPod?
2008/05/06
研討會日期 : 2008-05-06
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : 羅竹平
地點 : Global Outsourcing or FDI: How Did Apple Launch Its iPod?
演講者簡介 : Professor Chu-Ping Lo 為Ph.D. in Economics，University of California, Santa Cruz (2005)。
目前為台灣大學農業經濟系助理教授。
其主要研究領域為國際貿易、政策經濟及經濟成長。
演講摘要 : In this paper, I explain why the most productive firms, specifically in Informational Technology (IT) industry, might prefer international outsourcing to FDI when launching innovative products. In industries with a low output elasticity of R&D, the most productive firms prefer FDI to outsourcing because the latter incurs larger incompletecontract distortions. On the contrary, in industries with a high output elasticity of R&D, contractors likely honor contracts while R&D investment undertaken by a North firm is sufficiently large because a higher surplus is expected to compensate the incompletecontract costs. This model explains why Apple largely applied outsourcing to launch their iPod.
