Are Foreign Firms Delocalising Services From Spain?

The goal of this project is to find out if Spain is undergoing a disinvestment process in foreign service companies which might be leading to offshoring. To achieve this - after tackling conceptual and methodological aspects - a company's total disinvestment has been estimated. Subsequently, it...

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Published in:The Service industries journal 2007-04, Vol.27 (3), p.305-320
Main Author: Muñoz Guarasa, Marta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Disinvestment
Outsourcing
Service industries
Studies
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Summary:The goal of this project is to find out if Spain is undergoing a disinvestment process in foreign service companies which might be leading to offshoring. To achieve this - after tackling conceptual and methodological aspects - a company's total disinvestment has been estimated. Subsequently, its ratio to gross investment has been evaluated for the whole sector and for all the activities the company performed in the 1993-2004 period. The result does not show a worrying disinvestment process. Over the last year in the study, though, a significant change has been seen, which might suggest the beginning of a disinvestment process in some activities - as is happening worldwide.
ISSN:0264-2069
1743-9507
DOI:10.1080/02642060701207171