Multinational enterprises (MNE) have been highly instrumental in the processes leading to the increased fragmentation of production within global value chains. We examine the relationship between relative demands for skills, non-routine or non-offshorable tasks in Swedish MNE parents (onshore)...

We observe a substantial increase of foreign ownership in Sweden in the 1990s. Did that have any effect on relative demand for skilled labor? Has technology transfers often associated with inward FDI led to increased demand for skills due to skilled-biased technical change? Are there any grounds...

Using Swedish micro data we find no evidence for the concerns circulating in the public debate that foreign acquisitions lead to reductions in R&D expenditures and high-skilled activities in targeted domestic firms, neither in MNEs nor in non-MNEs. Previous studies have only focused on larger...

The employment in Sweden has become more concentrated to the larger cities in Sweden (Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö). This paper investigates whether Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs) have contributed to that development. We examine the association between offshoring within Swedish MNEs...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of foreign acquisitions on the productivity of acquired Swedish firms. However, because an acquisition is an opportunity to restructure a business and because such changes, in turn, can result in increased productivity, the effects may be...

International tätigen Unternehmungen stehen grundsätzlich zwei Optionen zurBesetzung vakanter Schlüsselpositionen in ausländischen Tochtergesellschaften zurVerfügung, und zwar die Rekrutierung von lokalen Fach- und Führungskräften oder dieEntsendung von Stammhausdelegierten. Die...

Seit den siebziger Jahren wurden zahlreiche theoretische Ansätze entwickelt, welche dieBetätigung von Unternehmungen auf ausländischen Märkten zu erklären versuchen (füreinen Überblick vgl. Welge/Holtbrügge 2003, 51 ff.). Einer der prominentesten und amhäufigsten zitierten Ansätze ist...

The internationalization of business within the last fifty years has led to a growing importanceof international human resource management (IHRM) (see, for example, Dowling et al. 1994,Desatnick and Bennet 1977, Evans et al. 2002 or Harzing/van Ruysseveldt 1995). Especiallythe role of...