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Local density (the number of firms vying for similar resources in a local environment) has been overlooked in explaining foreign subsidiary performance. This study draws upon the literatures on liability of foreignness and density dependence to examine how local density within the host country...
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mechanisms and recognizing human agency provides new insights into the age-old study of firm location. …
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This paper investigates the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Italy over the period 1986-1999. FDI are … applied. The results show that the location determinants strongly differ according to the foreign entry mode. Unlike the … a greenfield investment in Italy, they are strongly influenced by location decisions of previous foreign investors, but …
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We examine the determinants of multinational firms’ location choices in Europe by estimating a nested logit model on a …. Differences emerge in determinants of EU and US multinationals location choices, with special reference to the role of labor …
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Internationale Direktinvestitionen, die als entscheidender Motor der Globalisie­rung gelten, werden mehr und mehr durch Fusionsaktivitäten dominiert. Seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre ist eine ausgeprägte Welle von Direktinvestitionen und eine entsprechende Welle grenzüberschreitender Fusionen...
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Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...
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Western multinational corporations (MNCs) increasingly locate advanced functions, including product development and engineering, in emerging economies to gain access to lower-cost science and engineering (S&E) talent and specialized service providers. Over time, new S&E clusters have developed...
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This paper explores local and global dynamics underlying the development of knowledge services clusters, which we define as new geographic concentrations of technical talent and service providers offering upstream technical and knowledge-intensive business services to regional and global...
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