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Gender empowerment, supply-chain linkages and foreign direct investment : evidence on Bangladesh
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi - 2020 - Version of July, 2020
on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of …
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
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Supplier search and re-matching in global sourcing : theory and evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Fischer, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
In this paper, we consider a dynamic search-and-matching problem of a firm with its intermediate input supplier. In our model, a headquarter currently matched with a supplier, has an interest to find and collaborate with a more efficient partner. However, supplier switching through search and...
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937283
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937587
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Long-lasting bank relationships and growth of firms
Gambini, Alessandro; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010
A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth, distinguishing firms by size and "health". The idea is...
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Global sourcing of heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2015
This paper investigates the role of firm productivity in drawing firm boundaries in global sourcing. Our analysis focuses on how productivity affects the allocation of ownership rights between the headquarter of a firm and an intermediate input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as...
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Expatriate managers : effects on firm performance
Koren, Miklós; Telegdy, Álmos - 2024
Using a novel Hungarian dataset on firms and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), we estimate the impact of hiring expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition...
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?
Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015
The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...
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