We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between acquisitions by MNEs from technologically leading countries and those behind the technological frontier. We show that both acquire similarly R&D intensive domestic firms, but there are...

We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect firms from imitation and are considered crucial to promote innovation and technological diffusion. This paper examines the impact of IPR on import sourcing decisions of multinationals. We consider a framework in which firms offshore production of an...

Theoretische Grundlagen -- Transferobjekt- bzw. Technologieeigenschaften -- Eigenschaften der beteiligten Unternehmenseinheiten -- Eigenschaften der Beziehung zwischen Sender- und Empfängereinheit -- Koordinationsinstrumente -- Projekteffizienz.

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

1. Introduction -- 2. Multinational Companies, Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Theoretical Framework -- 3. Research Methodology and Design -- 4. Survey Findings: Descriptive Analysis -- 5. Survey Findings: Econometric Analysis -- 6. Findings and Analysis of the Interviews -- 7. Conclusion

Theoretische Fundierung des Technologietransfers in multinationalen Unternehmen -- Koordination von Technologietransfers in multinationalen Unternehmen -- Herleitung von Hypothesen zur Koordination von Technologietransfers -- Methoden der empirischen Untersuchung -- Ergebnisse der Untersuchung...