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R&D Sourcing, Joint Ventures and Innovation : A Multiple Indicators Approach

Adams, James D. - 2004

consider the effects of sourcing, RJVs, and the firm's internal research on innovation, as defined by patents and new products …. Our results are that sourcing has little effect on innovation, but that RJVs and internal research increase innovation …. This suggests specialization: cost saving is the primary motivation for sourcing, while innovation is the primary …

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Innocents Abroad : The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms

Perkins, Susan - 2008

The fundamental unit of production in microeconomics is the firm, and this mirrors reality in the United States and United Kingdom. But elsewhere, business groups can be the more important unit, for business strategy is often formulated at the business group level, not the firm level. In many...

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Universities, Joint Ventures, and Success in the Advanced Technology Program

Darby, Michael R. - 2003

are repeat participants. ATP participation has significant and robust effects on innovation in firms, generally increasing …

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International Joint Ventures and the Boundaries of the Firm

Desai, Mihir A. - 2002

This paper analyzes the determinants of partial ownership of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms and, in particular, why partial ownership has declined markedly over the last 20 years. The evidence indicates that whole ownership is most common when firms coordinate integrated...

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Dynamic Oligopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information : Implications for Horizontal Mergers

Sweeting, Andrew; Tao, Xuezhen; Yao, Xinlu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We model differentiated product pricing by firms that possess private information about serially-correlated state variables, such as their marginal costs, and can use prices to signal information to rivals. In a dynamic game, signaling can raise prices significantly above static complete...

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Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1998

This paper examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign multinational affiliates. More specifically, we try to answer two questions, using unpublished Indonesian micro data. Firstly, do establishments with minority and majority ownership...

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Why Do Multinational Firms Seek Out Joint Ventures?

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1989

This paper uses a model of dichotomous choice to distinguish the characteristics of Swedish multinational firms that seek out joint ventures from those that do not. The findings suggest that firms with little experience of foreign production and highly diversified product lines are the most...

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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer : Evidence from China

Jiang, Kun - 2018

This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a domestic firm that together set up a new firm, the joint venture. Employing administrative data on all international joint ventures in China from 1998 to 2007--roughly a quarter of...

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Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare : China's Automobile Market

Barwick, Panle Jia - 2017

While China has made great strides in transforming its centrally-planned economy to a market-oriented economy, there still exist widespread interregional trade barriers, such as policies and practices that protect local firms against competition from non-local firms. This study documents the...

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Antitrust and Innovation : Welcoming and Protecting Disruption

Federico, Giulio - 2019

existing sales from future challengers. In this fundamental way, competition promotes innovation. We apply this basic insight … internalizes business-stealing effects arising from their parallel innovation efforts and thus tends to depress innovation … of R&D, may offset the adverse effect of a merger on innovation. We describe the possible effects of a merger on …

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