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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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Multinational firms and heterogeneous labor
Larch, Mario (contributor); Lechthaler, Wolfgang (contributor) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003757817
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Knowledge transfer in global supply chains : multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - 2015
are key factors shaping the spillover potential of backward linkages. Local management autonomy and the long-term nature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491648
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The determinants of intra-firm trade : in search for export-import magnification effects
Egger, Peter (contributor); Pfaffermayr, Michael (contributor) - 2005
This paper studies the determinants of Austrian bilateral intra-firm trade in a panel of industry-level intra-firm goods trade flows. Economic size, unit labor costs and the magnification effects originating from multiple border crossing of sequentially finished products are found to be the most...
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On the coexistence of national companies and multinational enterprises
Kleinert, Jörn (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001789149
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Mild deglobalization : foreign investment screening and cross-border investment
Eichenauer, Vera; Wang, Feicheng - 2024
Openness to foreign investments is associated with risks. To mitigate these risks, many high-income countries have strengthened the control of foreign investments over the last decade in an increasing number of sectors considered critical. Investment screening distorts the market for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500949
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Beyond borders : do gender norms and institutions affect female businesses?
Görg, Holger; Jäkel, Ina Charlotte - 2024
In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female businesses. We exploit novel and unique micro data on start-ups in Denmark, which we combine with information on individual-level characteristics of the entrepreneur as main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015055768
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Capital income taxation of asymmetric countries
Koop, Michael J. - 2001
The paper analyzes the effects of a source-based capital income tax on production and market structures, trade and capital flows as well as national and global welfare. The analysis is carried by means of a general equilibrium model of trade which incorporates international capital flows as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474129
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The role of multinational enterprises in globalization : an empirical overview
Kleinert, Jörn - 2001
The activities of multinational enterprises drive the economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper lists some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization. Therefore, the importance of multinational enterprises in foreign direct investment and production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476361
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The influence of capital market integration on production and market structures
Koop, Michael J. - 2001
The paper analyzes the effects of increasing capital market integration on production and market structures, trade and capital flows as well as national and global welfare. In order to facilitate the analysis of the integration process, three stages of capital market integration are defined....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474172