全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP12585 Communication Costs and the Internal Organization of Multi-Plant Businesses: Evidence from the Impact of the French High-Speed Rail

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12585
	DP12585 Communication Costs and the Internal Organization of Multi-Plant Businesses: Evidence from the Impact of the French High-Speed Rail
	Claire Lelarge; Pauline Charnoz; Corentin Trevien
发表日期	2018-01-12
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	We take advantage of the expansion of the French High Speed Rail to study the impact of reductions in travel times between headquarters and the affiliated plants of corporate groups on their employment structure and profit margin. We rely on comprehensive administrative data allowing us to provide a large scale, cross-industry test of alternatives theories of firm organization, with a rich set of empirical indicators. We obtain that decreases in communication costs in the form of lower travel times foster the functional specialization of remote affiliates on their production activities. Support activities shrink because of the transfer of the high-skilled managers to headquarters. These organizational rationalizations have a significant but relatively small impact on overall groups' profit. These results hold across all industries but are strongest in the service industries, where the information to be transmitted across sites is arguably softer.
主题	Industrial Organization ; International Trade and Regional Economics ; Labour Economics
关键词	Communication costs Headquarters Firm organization Public infrastructure High-speed rail
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12585
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541396
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Claire Lelarge,Pauline Charnoz,Corentin Trevien. DP12585 Communication Costs and the Internal Organization of Multi-Plant Businesses: Evidence from the Impact of the French High-Speed Rail. 2018.