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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment in Sweden
Andersson, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994
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On the Internationalization of Corporate Boards
Oxelheim, Lars; Gregori, Aleksandra; Randøy, Trond; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
internationalizing their boards of directors. Based on a panel study of the internationalization of the boards of 347 non-financial firms …-mentioned group is found to serve a monitoring role, related to financial internationalization of the firm, whereas the latter … category fills an advisory role related to commercial internationalization. Hence, different types of firm internationalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818485
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Foreign Direct Investment, Source Country Heterogeneity and Management Practices
Heyman, Fredrik; Nor, Pehr-Johan; Hammarberg, Rickard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This paper examines whether and, if so, why source country heterogeneity exists in foreign direct investment (FDI). Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate performance differs systematically across source countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944998
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Cross-Ownership and the Takeover Deterrence
Nyberg, Sten - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
Firms having significant shareholdings in one another is not an unusual phenomenon in countries where the law admits such ownership arrangements, like Sweden and Japan. In this paper the role of cross-ownership as means for deterring takeovers is examined in the framework of a simple two-firm,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019053
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The EC and the Locational Choice of Swedish Multinational Companies
Swedenborg, Birgitta - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988
In a world with multinational companies (MNC's) changes such as those implied by the realization of EC's internal market will affect the locational choice made by geographically mobile MNC's. The reason is that the reduction of trade barriers within the EC puts non-EC members at a competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019061
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The International Firm: A Vehicle for Overcoming Barriers to Trade and a Global Intelligence Organization Diffusing the Notion of a Nation
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988
that economies of scale associated with various knowledge inputs have made it possible for firms to grow large through … internationalization and, once large, staying competitive and large. Internationalization is a technique of both overcoming barriers to … mobile carriers of industrial knowledge embodied in teams of humans. With barriers to trade and factor movements further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019068
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Swedish Multinationals and Competition from High- and Low-Wage Locations
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
This study uses data on Swedish multinationals to estimate cross elasticities of labour demand in different locations. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment in different parts of the firm will depend on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207052
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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina; Knarvik, Midelfart; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are important in transmitting technology across national borders. Not only do they allow for transfer of technology within the firm, but it is also believed that they are important channels for international R&D spillovers as well. This paper analyzes empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207055
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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities
Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
. In this study, we use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207058
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Reconciling the Evidence on the Knowledge Capital Model
Braconier, Henrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Urban, Dieter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
The Knowledge Capital Model (KC-model), described in Markusen (2002), encompasses both market size (horizontal) as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207064