Only Time Can Tell: Temporal Quality in Trade and Sourcing

33 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2017

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Kim-Sau Chung

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

Chia-Hui Lu

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Economics & Finance

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.

Suggested Citation

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

Kim-Sau Chung (Contact Author)

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) ( email )

Department of Economics
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Chia-Hui Lu

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Economics & Finance ( email )

83 Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon
Hong Kong

HOME PAGE: http://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/staff/chiahlu/

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