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0 Legal or administrative1 Tax barriers2 Language and culture3 Tariffs and other trade barriers4 Concerns of employees (including trade unions)5 Distance to existing clients6 Difficulty in identifying suitable providers abroad7 Concerns of the sourcing operation exceeding expected benefits8 Financial barriers9 Uncertainty of the quality of the products/services to be supplied abroada Lack of management resources and know-howb Missing documentation of own products and processes0 Total1 Function is sourced Domestically2 Function is sourced Internationally3 Function is not sourced0 Total - all NACE activities1 Industry (except construction)2 High and medium high-technology manufacturing3 Low and medium low-technology manufacturing4 Construction, services of the business economy except financial and insurance activities5 Knowledge-intensive market services6 Construction, services of the business economy except knowledge-intensive market services, financial and insurance activities0 Belgium1 Bulgaria2 Denmark3 Estonia4 Ireland5 France6 Latvia7 Lithuania8 Netherlands9 Portugala Romaniab Slovakiac Finlandd Swedene Norway
Barriers considered for international sourcing by sourcing status and economic activity (2009-2011) - experimental statistics
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