Only Time Can Tell: Temporal Quality in Trade and Sourcing
33 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2017
Date Written: October 9, 2016
Abstract
Temporal quality is a dimension of quality that only time can tell. When firms scale down their investment in temporal quality, their blueprints are less able to stand the test of time, necessitating their replacement by even newer blueprints, and generating an illusion for observers that firms have speeded up their innovations. We also investigate when will Northern firms invest more in temporal quality than Southern firms do, and how their choices of temporal quality interact with their global sourcing decisions.
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Chung, Kim-Sau and Lu, Chia-Hui, Only Time Can Tell: Temporal Quality in Trade and Sourcing (October 9, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2906656 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2906656
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