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Offshore sourcing continues to grow in importance for firms in a range of industries, and for many smaller firms it is a key step in the internationalisation process. Offshore sourcing helps firms maintain their competitiveness and meet their customers’ expectations of lower prices and better quality while facing high levels of international competition. A particularly favoured location for offshore sourcing is China, which offers a number of advantages including a large and rapidly growing market, low cost resources (particularly labour and land), access to an increasingly sophisticated supply base and R&D capability, as well as proximity to other high growth economies in Asia. In this short paper we outline the findings of a recent pilot study that examined the experience of a small sample of New Zealand-based mediumand high-technology firms engaged in offshore sourcing to China. The study is of considerable interest as it sheds light on aspects of offshoring not widely understood, in particular differences between anticipated and landed cost savings, the role of institutional weaknesses in the host country (China), and the trade-offs that result from alternative governance arrangements for offshored activities. We briefly consider the implications of our findings for incentives to re-shore activities.

Offshore Sourcing and Reshoring: The Impact of Governance on Cost and Incentives