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The role of the company in generating skills : the learning effects of work organization
Hull Kristensen, Peer (contributor);  …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004304091
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Foreign direct investment and corporate networking : a framework for spatial analysis of investment conditions
Morsink, Robert L. A. - 1998
This innovative book analyses the geographical patterns in foreign direct investment flows by combining elements from the theory of international production and the theory of economic geography. It develops a model for explaining why foreign direct investment is attracted to certain locations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473753
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Entrepreneurial competition and industrial location : investigating the structural patterns and intangible sources of competitive performance
Peneder, Michael - 2001
implications are tested in a comparative study of competitive performance in the EU, Japan and the USA. Typical mechanisms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473757
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Entrepreneurship, investment, and spatial dynamics : lessons and implications for the enlarged EU
Nijkamp, Peter (ed.); Moomaw, Ronald L. (ed.);  … - 2006
Enlargement of the EU increases economic diversity and inequality between countries and regions, making cohesion … entrepreneurship; a crucial factor in reducing the economic disparity caused by the geographic expansion of the EU. The book offers new … individual and cross-country analyses. FDI in accession countries is examined, as is the effect of EU integration on own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474016
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Evaluation and performance measurement of research and development : techniques and perspectives for multi-level analysis
Chiesa, Vittorio - 2009
This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851892
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Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification
Fai, Felicia M. - 2003
Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473748
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Innovation in technology alliance networks
Lemmens, Charmianne E. A. V. - 2004
This book studies the dynamics of alliance group formation in technology-based networks. The author attempts to develop the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance block membership and innovative performance in a changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473807
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Firms' investment and finance decisions : theory and empirical methodology
Butzen, Paul (ed.); Fuss, Catherine (ed.) - 2003
This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474152
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Tax evasion and firm survival in competitive markets
Palda, K. Filip - 2001
Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabilities. The difference in production costs between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851115
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Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship
Scherer, Andreas Georg (contributor);  … - 2008
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how corporations should play a more active role in fulfilling their global citizenship obligations and responsibilities
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851606