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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany. We calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013), which indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …
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Spillover effects in mutual fund companies
Sialm, Clemens; Tham, T. Mandy - 2011
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Strategic trade policy and multinational enterprises
Klodt, Henning - 1991
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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005
This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...
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Siemens: a multinational's strategy to investment in the Central-East European transformation countries
Sander, Birgit - 1995
The Central East European economies are competing for international investment capital, especially for FDI in order to support transformation. The paper explores how the Siemens AG, one of the world's largest MNCs, allocates investments towards and within Central East Europe and how they fit...
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Organizational forms for global engagement of firms
Bogheas, Sprios; Görg, Holger - 2008
Global engagement of firms can take a variety of forms. We argue that there are considerable advantages of developing models that allow for a wide set of alternatives of organizational form. We illustrate this firstly using plant level data which allows us to distinguish firms that serve only...
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Multinational firms and heterogeneous labor
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2008
In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...
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Firm heterogeneity and choice of ownership structure: an empirical analysis of German FDI in India
Görg, Holger; Lauber, Verena; Meyer, Birgit; … - 2008
We contribute to the nascent literature on the heterogeneity of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the relevance of firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of firm-level heterogeneity when MNEs decide on the share...
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The role of production technology for productivity spillovers from multinationals: firm-level evidence for Hungary
Görg, Holger; Hijzen, Alexander; Muraközy, Balázs - 2009
This paper analyses the potential for productivity spillovers from inward foreign direct investment using administrative panel data on firms for Hungary. We hypothesise that the potential for spillovers is related to observable characteristics of the production process of foreign affiliates, and...
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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth
Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
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