This paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of …

We analyze diversification of boundaries of local firms in developing countries under the economic globalization. The … globalization has an aspect of homogenization of the world economy, but also has another aspect of diversification through …

Recent empirical studies which utilize plant- or establishment-level data to examine globalization's impact on … productivity have discovered many causal mechanisms involved in globalization's impact on firms' productivity. Since these pathways … globalization become visible. This strategy is useful for detecting missing links within and across the existing studies as well as …

, globalization has resulted in an increasing number of multinational corporations to adopt a platform strategy for their customers in …