Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations

Autores
Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés Manuel; Falcone, Guillermo; Porto, Guido Gustavo
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
documento de trabajo
Estado
versión enviada
Descripción
This paper proposes a new link relating export destinations and the organization of the firm. We claim that the production of higher-quality varieties exported to rich destinations induces firms to re-structure their production processes, becoming organizationally more complex. We introduce a theoretical model with these features and we explore the mechanisms using a panel of Chilean manufacturing plants. Our identification strategy relies on falling tariffs on Chilean products across destinations caused by the signature of Free Trade Agreements with high-income countries (the European Union, the United States, and South Korea). We find that Chilean plants that were induced by these tariff reductions to start exporting to high-income destinations increased the number of hierarchical layers and upgraded the quality of their products. This involved the addition of qualified supervisors that facilitated the provision of higher product quality. These effects took place at new high-income exporting firms.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
Exports
Organizational change
Export destinations
Quality
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
title Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
spellingShingle Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
Brambilla, Irene
Ciencias Económicas
Exports
Organizational change
Export destinations
Quality
title_short Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
title_full Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
title_fullStr Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
title_full_unstemmed Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
title_sort Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Brambilla, Irene
César, Andrés Manuel
Falcone, Guillermo
Porto, Guido Gustavo
author Brambilla, Irene
author_facet Brambilla, Irene
César, Andrés Manuel
Falcone, Guillermo
Porto, Guido Gustavo
author_role author
author2 César, Andrés Manuel
Falcone, Guillermo
Porto, Guido Gustavo
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Exports
Organizational change
Export destinations
Quality
topic Ciencias Económicas
Exports
Organizational change
Export destinations
Quality
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper proposes a new link relating export destinations and the organization of the firm. We claim that the production of higher-quality varieties exported to rich destinations induces firms to re-structure their production processes, becoming organizationally more complex. We introduce a theoretical model with these features and we explore the mechanisms using a panel of Chilean manufacturing plants. Our identification strategy relies on falling tariffs on Chilean products across destinations caused by the signature of Free Trade Agreements with high-income countries (the European Union, the United States, and South Korea). We find that Chilean plants that were induced by these tariff reductions to start exporting to high-income destinations increased the number of hierarchical layers and upgraded the quality of their products. This involved the addition of qualified supervisors that facilitated the provision of higher product quality. These effects took place at new high-income exporting firms.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description This paper proposes a new link relating export destinations and the organization of the firm. We claim that the production of higher-quality varieties exported to rich destinations induces firms to re-structure their production processes, becoming organizationally more complex. We introduce a theoretical model with these features and we explore the mechanisms using a panel of Chilean manufacturing plants. Our identification strategy relies on falling tariffs on Chilean products across destinations caused by the signature of Free Trade Agreements with high-income countries (the European Union, the United States, and South Korea). We find that Chilean plants that were induced by these tariff reductions to start exporting to high-income destinations increased the number of hierarchical layers and upgraded the quality of their products. This involved the addition of qualified supervisors that facilitated the provision of higher product quality. These effects took place at new high-income exporting firms.
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