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Why do companies relocate? The German discourse on relocation

Warum verlagern Unternehmen ihren Betrieb? Der deutsche Diskurs über Betriebsverlagerungen
Authors: Piotti, Geny;

Why do companies relocate? The German discourse on relocation

Abstract

Das Paper beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle des Diskurses und dessen Hauptprotagonisten bei der Förderung von Entscheidungen über Betriebsverlagerungen. Wenn die Wirtschaftsbedingungen ungewiss sind, ist der Diskurs ein "Ort", an dem Ideen und Paradigmen sowie mögliche Handlungsoptionen "kreiert" werden. Da Interessen nicht als gegeben angenommen werden können, sondern vielmehr als "sozial konstruiert" betrachtet werden sollten, trägt der Diskurs zur Definition der Interessen von Akteuren bei, indem er Argumente und Kausalbeziehungen zwischen dem Funktionieren des Marktes und dem individuellen Handeln auswählt, verstärkt bzw. legitimiert. Einige Umfragen in deutschen Unternehmen zeigen, dass die Vorteile für Firmen nicht so eindeutig sind, obwohl die Anzahl der Produktionsverlagerungen wächst. Das Paper argumentiert, dass die öffentliche Debatte in deutschen Zeitungen und Businessmagazinen seit den 1990er-Jahren die Entscheidungsprozesse über Produktionsverlagerungen beeinflusst haben könnte, indem die Nachteile der Produktion in Deutschland stark betont sowie potenzielle Konflikte und zusätzliche Kosten ausgeblendet wurden, die für die Firmen bei der Produktionsverlagerung zusätzlich entstehen.

The paper examines the role of discourse in supporting firm’s decisions to relocate and how main actors influence such discourse. If there is uncertainty about the general functioning of the economy, discourse is the place where ideas and paradigms, and possible options of behavior, are created. Since interests are not given a priori but are socially constructed, discourse contributes to their definition by selecting, amplifying and legitimizing arguments and causal relationships between the functioning of the market and individual behavior. Some surveys of German companies show that while relocation is increasing, the advantages for firms are less clear than expected. The main argument of the paper is that the public debate in German newspapers and the business press since the 1990s could have influenced the processes of decision-making over relocation by amplifying the disadvantages of remaining in Germany and neglecting the conflicts and additional costs arising for companies by relocating their production activities.

1 Introduction 2 Uncertainty and interest change in markets: The role of ideas and imitation Changing interests: The role of ideas Changing interests: The processes of imitation Ideas, imitation processes and the role of discourse 3 Entrepreneurs and the processes of relocation: A decisional model 4 On the unpredicted costs of relocation: Strategic and cognitive uncertainty 5 The processes of relocation in Germany and their contradictions 6 The discourse on relocation in the German press (1990–2005) 7 The actors in the discourse on relocation 8 Concluding remarks Appendix

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ddc:300, enterprise, company policy, Unternehmen, Entscheidung, Auslandsproduktion, Produktion, management planning, Wirtschaftszeitschrift, Deutschland, business management, Diskurs, manufacturing conditions, Unternehmensführung, organizational culture, Betriebsverlagerung, Produktionsverlagerung, relocation of production, Unternehmensplanung, Meinung, Unternehmenskultur, relocation of business, discourse, production, Produktionsbedingungen, Kognition, Unternehmenspolitik

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