How Does Protectionism Impact Multinational Firm Reshoring? Evidence from the UK

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Management International Review Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI:10.1007/s11575-023-00521-5

Yama Temouri, Vijay Pereira, Agelos Delis, Geoffrey Wood

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Abstract There is growing interest in the nature and possible extent of de-globalization. This paper explores the impact that protectionist measures have on multinational enterprise (MNE) reshoring back to the UK. Besides taking into account the global trends indicating a return to protectionism, the existing literature highlights various firm-level and structural country-level determinants of reshoring decisions. We test a conceptual model with parent-subsidiary firm-level data for the period 2009 to 2017. We conclude that firms that are more sensitive to wage costs in their overseas subsidiaries were more likely to reshore. We did not find that more capital-intensive firms had a higher propensity to reshore. We find that our results are mostly driven from UK MNEs with subsidiaries in EU. This result has clear implications for a potential Brexit effect. Theoretically, we base our findings in transactional cost economics to help explain why different types of firms behave in the way they do, and why different types of firms may respond in quite different ways to the same mix of institutions.

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保护主义如何影响跨国公司回流?来自英国的证据

人们对去全球化的性质和可能的程度越来越感兴趣。本文探讨了保护主义措施对跨国企业回流英国的影响。除了考虑到表明保护主义回归的全球趋势外，现有文献还强调了回流决策的各种公司层面和结构性国家层面的决定因素。我们用2009年至2017年母子公司层面的数据检验了一个概念模型。我们的结论是，对海外子公司的工资成本更敏感的公司更有可能回流。我们没有发现资本密集程度越高的企业回流倾向越高。我们发现，我们的业绩主要来自在欧盟设有子公司的英国跨国公司。这一结果对英国脱欧的潜在影响有着明确的暗示。从理论上讲，我们将研究结果建立在交易成本经济学的基础上，以帮助解释为什么不同类型的企业会有不同的行为方式，以及为什么不同类型的企业对相同的制度组合可能会有截然不同的反应。

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