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Yuki, Higuchi
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Barnes, Justin
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Black, Anthony
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Otsuka, Keijiro
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2023-10-17T08:12:11Z |
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2023-10-17T08:12:11Z |
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2024-03 |
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DATA AVAILABILITY: The data underlying this article were provided by the South African Automotive Benchmarking Club (SAABC) by permission. Data will be shared on request to the corresponding author with permission of the South African Automotive Benchmarking Club (SAABC). |
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Firms in developing countries can learn advanced technology and management know-how through foreign direct investment (FDI). The extent (or the lack) of transmission of technology and knowledge depends on the structure of production networks. In the automotive industry, networks consist of vehicle assemblers and their layers of parts suppliers. We used the South African automotive industry as a case study to examine how the behaviour of assemblers and parts suppliers is linked. Based on statistical analysis using the original firm-level data, we found that the first-tier suppliers significantly increased their production with the regional expansion of automotive production. However, such growth linkages were not observed among lower-tier suppliers. Further, we obtained the suggestive evidence that only multinational (and not local) first-tier firms improved their production efficiency, indicating the importance of production networks among multinationals in transmitting technology. |
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Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) |
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Murata Science Foundation. |
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679701 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Higuchi, Y., Barnes, J., Black, A., & Otsuka, K. (2024). FDI, production networks and firm behaviour: Evidence from the South African automotive industry. The World Economy, 47, 1247–1273. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13491. |
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10.1111/twec.13491 |
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0378-5920 (print) |
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1467-9701 (online) |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/92918 |
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en |
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Wiley |
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© 2023 The Authors. The World Economy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. |
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dc.subject |
Backward linkage |
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Gobal value chain |
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Local content |
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South Africa (SA) |
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) |
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FDI, production networks and firm behaviour : evidence from the South African automotive industry |
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Article |
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