Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 80
Cover Image
Strategic motivations for Sino-Western alliances: a comparativeanalysis of Chinese and Western alliance formation drivers.
Saebi, Tina; Dong, Qinqin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper compares the key drivers of Sino-foreign alliance formation from the perspective of both Chinese and Western alliance partners. Our results indicate that Chinese companies enter into alliances with Western companies mainly to get accesses to international markets and to develop their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856331
Cover Image
Strategic Partnering with Chinese Companies: Hidden Motives and Treasures
Duysters, Geert; Saebi, Tina; Dong, Qinqin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
In this paper we aim to investigate the key drivers of international alliance formation from the perspective of Chinese companies. Our results indicate that Chinese companies enter into alliances with Western companies mainly to get accesses to international markets and to develop their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856395
Cover Image
The determinants of the outward foreign direct investment of China and India: Whither the home country?
Tolentino, Paz Estrella - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
The current study examines the relationships between several home country-specific macroeconomic factors and the level of the outward FDI of China and India using multiple time-series data from 1982 to 2006 and from 1980 to 2006, respectively. With the use of a vector autoregressive model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856296
Cover Image
Attracting and embedding R&D by multinational firms: policy recommendations for EU new member states
Narula, Rajneesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
imply a considerably greater dependence on domestic knowledge sources and infrastructure. This is 'supply-side R&D'. These … a variety of other informal and non-equity agreements to engage in knowledge exchange. We also deliberately consider the … tendency to focus on FDI flows is flawed, since knowledge exchanges and innovation are establishment level phenomena. An MNE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856305
Cover Image
The Heterogeneity of MNC' Subsidiaries and Technology Spillovers: Explaining positive and negative effects in emerging economies
Marin, Anabel; Sasidharan, Subash - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Conventional models of multinational corporation (MNC) related spillovers in host economies assume that they derive from the technological assets created at the headquarters. Subsidiaries' activities in the host economy are not given any role in this process. In this paper, drawing on recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856308
Cover Image
Multinationals are Multicultural Units: Some Indications from a Cross-Cultural Study
Kwanjai, Nantawan Noi; Hertog, J. Friso den - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper makes a case for the value of looking at culture and multinationals from a management and organizational perspective because it is one which could direct greater attention towards culture as a significant factor in future investigation on multinational corporations. We attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856321
Cover Image
Technological spillovers from multinational presence - Towards a conceptual framework
Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This paper undertakes a critical review of existing spillover analyses and proposes a unique analytical framework for examining technological spillovers in a manufacturing industry setting. The proposed framework overlaps three different literature strands; cluster and network dynamics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856329
Cover Image
Do we need different frameworks to explain infant MNEs from developing countries?
Narula, Rajneesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
Applying extant IB theory, I argue that initial firm internationalisation is shaped by the interdependence and dynamic interaction between its O assets and the L assets of its home location. Regardless of nationality, the initial O assets of an infant MNE tend to be constrained by the L assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856340
Cover Image
Successive leadership changes in the regional jet industry
Vertesy D. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This study examines leadership dynamics in the regional jet manufacturing industry from the 1980s onwards. With the help of leading products aircraft or aircraft family, British Aerospace BAe, Fokker, Bombardier and Embraer consecutively took the leadership in terms of new deliveries. In order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856342
Cover Image
Russia's emerging multinationals: trends and issues
Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
The paper focuses on the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the intention of the paper is to contribute to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856349