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Former foreign affiliates : cast out and outperformed?

Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Poelhekke, Steven - 2014

The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...

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The rapidly deepening India-China economic relationship

Whalley, John; Shekhar, Tanmaya - 2010

In this paper we focus on the rapidly deepening bilateral India-China economic relationship. Each is deeply integrating … into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … China, and the two have to be considered a joint global presence. India and China are thus viewed in the literature in …

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The deepening China Brazil economic relationship

Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - 2010

We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil … rates suggest that China will become the dominant trade partner for Brazil surprisingly soon. -- economic relationship …

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BRICSAM and the non-WTO

Antkiewicz, Agata (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

economies (Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa, ASEAN, Mexico) who (with the exception of Mexico) are also outside of the …

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Worker commitment and establishment performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021

Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment performance. An index of worker commitment is...

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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019

Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...

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Contract innovation in Germany : an economic evaluation of pacts for employment and competitiveness

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - In: BJIR : an international journal of employment relations 55 (2017) 3, pp. 500-526

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Management practices and establishment performance under non-union workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Bellmann, Lutz - 2020

This paper brings together two factors deemed important correlates of firm performance: advanced management practices and works councils. The country sample comprises nations where workplace representation is via a works council. The Management Questionnaire of the 2013 European Company Survey...

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Trust and workplace performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially measured using the individual survey respondent's...

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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations : unbundling spatial lags

Poelhekke, Steven (contributor); … - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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