This paper uses a proportional hazard model to study foreign direct investment by Japanese manufacturers in Europe between 1970 and 1994. We divide each firm's investment total into a sequence of individual investment decisions and analyze how firm-specific characteristics affect each decision....

Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms that are active on international markets as exporters or foreign direct investors do generate more new knowledge than firms which sell on the national market only. These...

Sustainability, defined here its the triple bottom line, is rapidly gaining importance its a societal and strategic business concern. Research oil sustainability linked with Human Resource Management (HRM) is very limited. Although HR is often tasked with training and transferring values related...