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States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World
Benito, Gabriel; Narula, Rajneesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
A key feature of globalisation has been the growth and spread of multinational enterprises (MNEs), but there is here is considerable evidence that MNEs do not regard all locations as being equivalent. MNE activity both to and from peripheral economies differs from MNE activity associated with...
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Location and R&D alliances in the European ICT industry
Narula, Rajneesh; Santangelo, Grazia D. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic scenario the location of a firm's innovative activities plays an important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as a means to limit...
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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
of the outward FDI of China and India using multiple time-series data from 1982 to 2006 and from 1980 to 2006 … Granger cause the level of outward FDI of China. By contrast, the national technological capability of India Granger causes … their level of outward FDI. The level of outward FDI of China does not Granger cause any of the home country …
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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...
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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...
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The Innovativeness of Foreign Firms in China
Urem, Branka; Alcorta, Ludovico; An, Tongliang - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
relationship with propensity. The analysis is based on innovation survey data on manufacturing firms from Jiangsu province of China …
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Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe
Zhang, Ying; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
Since end of the 1990s, the world has been witnessing a phenomenon of internationalisation of Chinese companies. This internationalisation is often understood through FDI inflows, whereby multinational companies establish their presence in a form of subsidiaries overseas. However, lately many...
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FDI and Innovation as Drivers of Export Behaviour: Firm-level Evidence from East Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on recent developments in applied international … China as well as accumulated experience in Thailand. Furthermore, a technology index composed of technical functions …
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Europeanisation Strategy of Chinese Companies: Its Perils and Promises
Filippov, Sergey; Saebi, Tina - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
The magnitude of outward FDI from China over the recent years has been impressive. It is widely acknowledged that China … outward FDI. The paper traces the development of China's outward direct investment policies and discusses the various motives …
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Foreign aid transaction costs
Vandeninden, Frieda - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
The term 'transaction cost' has been widely mentioned in the recent literature on aid effectiveness. In fact, the shift into the aid delivery system (see e.g. the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness) has been justified among others by the high transaction costs generated by the previous aid...
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