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Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws in the current...

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Time to say goodbye? The impact of environmental regulation on foreign divestment

Mao, Haiou; Görg, Holger; Fang, Guopei - 2023

We look at divestments by foreign firms - a topic that has received comparatively little attention in the literature - and investigate how changes in the regulatory environment in the host country may impact on such divestment decisions. We use the implementation of China's Two Control Zone...

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When Do Multinational Companies Consider Corporate Social Responsibility? A Multi-Country Study in Sub-Saharan Africa

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hoffmann, Stefan; Seric, Adnan - 2016

While African countries are becoming more and more relevant as host countries for suppliers of multinational companies little is known about corporate social responsibility (CSR) in this region. To fill this gap, the present paper explores CSR considerations of foreign affiliates of...

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South-South FDI: Is It Really Different?

Gold, Robert; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017

receiving FDI outperform domestic ones, while the origin of the foreign investor is of minor importance. We use four different … definitions of "South" to compare Northern and Southern FDI. Overall, we do not find strong differences in terms of firm … productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. We also find that employment …

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Employment effects of privatisation and foreign acquisition of Chinese state-owned enterprises

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Going international : the foreign direct investment behaviour of smaller UK firms

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The spatial redistribution of Japanese direct investment in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 2010

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Japanese foreign direct investment in India : an institutional theory approach

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The applied economics of (international) business : a personal perspective

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Foreign direct investment and wages in domestic firms in Ireland : productivity spillovers versus labour-market crowding out

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