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Going Global: The Challenges for Knowledge-based Economies
Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; Loikkanen, Torsti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The present volume aims to provide a comprehensive and systemic overview of the challenges that going global poses to knowledge based economies. Its focus is four-fold. 1) Firstly, it investigates why companies, especially high-tech firms, go global, i.e. which are the drivers that push...
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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
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Dalla crisi allo sviluppo: quali strategie per le PMI?
Birolo, Adriano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
phase of large internationalization of the traditional regional productive network. These processes of external outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025299
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R&D strategy of small and medium enterprises in India: Trends and determinants
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The liberalization of economic policies in the last two decades and intensifying market competition tend to be a cause of policy concern for the survival of SMEs in emerging economies like India as these firms accounts for the largest chunk of industrial units and employment. Given their limited...
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Outsourcing, occupational restructuring, and employee well-being: Is there a silver lining?
Petri, Böckerman; Mika, Maliranta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …
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Strategic outsourcing with technology transfer under price competition
Kabiraj, Tarun; Sinha, Uday Bhanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We construct a model to show that outsourcing of a crucial input can occur even though it can be produced in-house at a … differentiation is small or the technological gap between two input producing firms is small, strategic outsourcing will occur …. Technology transfer in the form of patent sale will act as a commitment that the firm will outsource. While the outsourcing firm …
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The geographical restructuring of the European automobile industry in the 2000s
Frigant, Vincent; Miollan, Stéphane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
foreign firms’ decision to export much of their local production. At the same time, the offshoring process remains more or …
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Sorting into Outsourcing: Are Pro ts Taxed at a Gorilla's Arm's Length?
Bauer, Christian; Langenmayr, Dominika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
sort into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply …
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Sorting into Outsourcing: Are Profits Taxed at a Gorilla's Arm's Length?
Bauer, Christian; Langenmayr, Dominika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
sort into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009292879
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The effects of FDI in R&D on home countries, the case of Switzerland
Michel, Julie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to participate in the discussion of the effects of outward FDI in R&D on the home country. The main possible threat for home economies is the relocation of R&D activities to foreign regions and, as a result, the loss of technological capacity. This study contributes...
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