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Multinationals are Multicultural Units: Some Indications from a Cross-Cultural Study

Kwanjai, Nantawan Noi; Hertog, J. Friso den - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

This paper makes a case for the value of looking at culture and multinationals from a management and organizational … on multinational corporations. We attempt to illustrate that multinationals are fundamentally multicultural units in more … illuminate an understanding of their covert meanings vis-à-vis culture and learning in multinationals. Last, we reinstate how our …

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EU enlargement and consequences for FDI assisted industrial development

Narula, Rajneesh; Bellak, Christian - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Many of the new member states as well as candidate and accession countries of the EU are confident that membership will result in substantially increased inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing. This paper discusses the policy issues and challenges that cohesion and accession...

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Global Players from Brazil: drivers and challenges in the internationalization process of Brazilian firms

Carvalho, Flavia; Costa, Ionara; Duysters, Geert - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

This chapter discusses general patterns of internationalization of Brazilian firms. It highlights the main determinants for internationalization, the main destinations, as well as the modes of entry that Brazilian firms employ overseas. The paper also discusses some aspects related to the...

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New insights on the role of location advantages in international innovation

Narula, Rajneesh; Santangelo, Grazia D. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper takes a closer look at the role of location advantages in the spatial distribution of MNE R&D activity. In doing so, we have returned to first principles by revisiting our understanding of L and O advantages and their interaction. We revisit the meaning of L advantages, and offer a...

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Below the Radar: What does Innovation in Emerging Economies have to offer other Low Income Economies?

Kaplinsky, Raphael; Chataway, Joanna; Clark, Norman; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

Between 1970 and 2000 the proportion of global R&D occurring in low income economies rose from two percent to more than 20 percent. However, this rising commitment to R&D does not easily translate into the emergence of a family of innovations meeting the needs of low income consumers "at the...

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Business groups, foreign direct investment, and capital goods trade: The import behavior of Japanese affiliates

Belderbos, Rene; Wakasugi, Ryuhei; Zou, Jianglei - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

We examine the impact of buyer-supplier relationships within business group on capital goods trade in the context of foreign direct investment by buyer firms and capital goods producers. A simple model in which cost-reducing relationship specific investments are underlying business group ties...

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Sunk costs, extensive R&D subsidies and permanent inducement effects

Arqué-Castells, Pere; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

We study whether there is scope for using subsidies to smooth out barriers to R&D performance and expand the share of R&D firms in Spain. We consider a dynamic model with sunk entry costs in which firms’ optimal participation strategy is defined in terms of two subsidy thresholds that...

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The impact of sectoral heterogeneities in economic growth and catching up: Empirical evidence for Latin American manufacturing industries

Lavopa, Alejandro - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

Building on different strands of literature this paper proposes an approach to characterize the structural patterns followed by the manufacturing sector of Latin American largest economies (VArgentina, Brazil and Mexico) during the last decades. The main focus of this approach relies on the...

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Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Stam, Erik; Stel, Andre van - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range of countries. An important element of this paper is that...

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R&D Behavior and the Emergence of Fat Tailed Firm Size Distributions

Babutsidze, Zakaria - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper presents a simple boundedly rational model of a firm and consumer behaviour. We formulate an entry game, where every firm decides on investing in R&D for inventing a new product that will appeal to certain group of consumers. The success depends on the amount of funds available for...

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