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Corporate values in local contexts : work systems and workers' welfare in Western and Eastern Europe

Kahancová, Marta - 2007

work practices, namely work systems and fringe benefits, in a Dutch multinational company (MNC) and its manufacturing … der Basis von Analysen der Produktions- und Arbeitsbedingungen und der vom Unternehmen gewährten freiwilligen … Zusatzleistungen in einem niederländischen multinationalen Unternehmen mit Niederlassungen in West- und Osteuropa beantwortet werden …

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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2009

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s competitive environment and the influence of...

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Drivers for International Innovation Activities in Developed and Emerging Countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2013

The internationalisation of corporate R&D is an opportunity for firms to reach local knowledge and expertise which is distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform products to local needs with locally available...

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Unraveling the MNE wage premium

van der Straaten, Khadija; Pisani, Niccolò; Kolk, Ans - 2020

Whereas the field of International Business has extensively studied MNEs’ generic (positive) impact on host economies, but rarely on employee wages, economics research has only shown an overall MNE wage premium. We ‘unravel’ this premium, considering multiple levels of analysis and...

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Interdependence in Multinational Production Networks

Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang - 2010

The majority of multinational firms today operate a multilateral production network. Most existing empirical analyses have, however, focused on firms' choice between producing at home and investing overseas and assumed that a firm's decision to invest in a foreign country is independent of its...

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Corporate values in local contexts: Work systems and workers' welfare in Western and Eastern Europe

Kahancová, Marta - 2007

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Internationalization and Environmental Disclosure : The Role of Home and Host Institutions

Kolk, Ans; Fortanier, Fabienne - 2013

Purpose – The domestic institutional context has emerged as a key determinant of firms’ environmental disclosure, but studies have hardly addressed the extent to which exposure to foreign institutional contexts plays a role in the occurrence and contents of non-financial disclosure, crucial...

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Transnational Business Governance Interaction and Competition between Standard‐Setting Initiatives : Labor Standards in Garment, Toys and Agriculture

Helmerich, Nicole - 2013

This paper analyzes interactions within standard‐setting networks in the area of social and labor rights. We examine the shape of transnational business governance interactions (TBGI), pathways, and interaction mechanisms in three sectors: garments, toys and agriculture. Our comparative...

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The organization of European multinationals

Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda - 2011

Recent literature on international trade has established that the most productive firms become multinationals. But our data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of the same European multinational parent firms suggesting...

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The impact of locating production abroad on activities at home

Kleinert, Jörn (contributor); Toubal, Farid (contributor) - 2007

We analyze whether firms that establish their first affiliate in a foreign country have a different pattern of growth in output, employment, capital and productivity than firms that remain national. We use firm-level data on German multinational activities and appropriate matching techniques to...

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