Die Fragmentation, die sich auf die Aufspaltung von bislang vertikal integrierten Produktionsprozessen bezieht, wird als einer der Gründe für die zunehmende Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft gesehen. Dieser Artikel unternimmt es, empirisch den Umfang der Lohnveredelung amerikanischer...

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...

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...

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...