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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference

Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2019

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants of cross-border investment relationships. We base our investigation on a newly established firm-level data set of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech...

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How deep is your love? : innovation, upgrading and the depth of internationalization

Meyer, Birgit - 2020 - Preliminary Draft, October 2019

Global Value Chains (GVCs) provide an important opportunity to become member of the global economy. Gaining access to GVCs and the possibility of developing linkages with major suppliers and customers enables the prospect to upgrade products and production processes via knowledge and...

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The effect of local corruption on ownership strategy in cross border mergers and acquisitions

Di Guardo, Maria Chiara; Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2015

- wholly owned subsidiary or equity participation - exercised by firms involved in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M … to have a strong influence on management decisions during acquisitions, it has been overlooked in the academic literature …, and research on this topic is in its infancy. As a matter of fact, the increasing trend toward international acquisitions …

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Agglomeration economies in Italy : impact on heterogeneous firms' survival : paper to be presented at the 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International,...

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Mazzotta, Fernanda - 2014 - Preliminary draft

The focus of our contribution is to shed light on the importance of firm agglomerations and FDI as drivers of firm survival in Italy. We focus upon different types of agglomeration economies related to the geographical context checking how these economies impact differently on heterogeneous...

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The motives for the FDI location choice in the 'old' and 'new' Europe

Serwicka, Ilona Elzbieta; Jones, Jonathan; Wren, Colin M. - 2014

This paper adds to the scarce cross-country evidence on FDI location decisions between the EU-15 Member States and the ten new Members that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 from the Central and East European Countries (CEECs). To capture the discrete nature of the location choice,...

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Regional FDI spillovers and local suppliers : disentangling the effects of foreign ownership, technology gap and absorptive capacity

Jordaan, Jacob A. - 2012

In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver of regional growth, by acting as a source of new knowledge and technologies to local suppliers in a host economy. For the analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained...

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Regional FDI, technological knowledge and export-oriented entrepreneurs in Spain

Gonzalez-Pernia, Jose L.; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki - 2012

The emergence of new ventures that from inception use resources and sell their goods and services in multiple foreign markets has challenged traditional theories explaining the internationalization of a firm as a stage process (Oviatt & McDougall, 1994). Different factors have been identified to...

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International and cross border entrepreneurship : the case of Greece and Bulgaria

Katsikis, Ioannis; Fragidis, Garyfallos; Paschaloudis, … - 2012

Although neighboring countries and both members of the EU, Greece and Bulgaria have very different social and economic environments in which entrepreneurial activities take place. At the same time, there are strong entrepreneurial ties between private firms of the two countries, initiated by...

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The gravity of cross-border R&D expenditure

Leitner, Sandra M.; Dachs, Bernhard; Stehrer, Robert - 2012 - Version: June 2012

In recent years, firms have considerably decentralized their research and development (R&D) activities. Subsidiaries of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) are now among the top performers of R&D in many EU and non-EU countries. Specifically, MNE affiliates account for around 20% of total...

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Location choices of multinational companies in Ukraine

Zvirgzde, Daria; Schiller, Daniel; Revilla Diez, Javier - 2013

This paper explains the location choices of multinational companies (MNCs) in a transition economy by traditional economic factors and institutional quality. Based on a thorough theoretical framework and a set of hypotheses, empirical data of an enterprise survey of 153 foreign firms in three...

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