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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim A.; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319535
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703273
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Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries
Pal, Sarmistha - 2013
The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329038
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Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries
Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698823
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653434
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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D: An introduction based on the European experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278539
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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876571
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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm's expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269467
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Speeding up the product cycle: The role of host country reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011
quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282151