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GLOBALIZATION OF INNOVATION ACTIVITY BY TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS: AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT ECONOMIC CRISIS

ZORSKA, ANNA - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 4 (2010) 1, pp. 11-14

reorientation of innovation programs are implemented in order to reduce their costs and increase effectiveness. The globalization of …

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and the Costs of Corporate Taxation

Keuschnigg, Christian - Saïd Business School, Oxford University - 2007

This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive investment refers to the size of a firm’s capital stock. Extensive...

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Organizing the Global Value Chain

Antras, Pol; Chor, Davin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...

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Organizing to Adapt and Compete

Alonso, Ricardo; Dessein, Wouter; Matouschek, Niko - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 7 (2015) 2, pp. 158-87

We examine the relationship between the organization of a multi-divisional firm and its ability to adapt production decisions to changes in the environment. We show that even if lower-level managers have superior information about local conditions, and incentive conflicts are negligible, a...

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The Organization of European Multinationals

Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of … advantage to the new EU Member States and Emerging Europe. One candidate for this startling difference in productivity levels …. We also analyse the conditions under which European multinationals transplant their business model to Eastern Europe. We …

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Assets or Liabilities of Foreignness? On the Role of TNCs in International Business

Freiling, Joerg; Laudien, Sven M. - ZenTra - Center for Transnational Studies - 2012

Cross-border activities of firms are said to be risky and complicated due to so-called 'liabilities of foreignness' (LOF) (Zaheer & Mosakowski 1997; Zaheer 1995). These LOF are difficulties firms in general have to face when acting in environments they are not familiar with. The existence of LOF...

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Time to BRIC it? Internationalization of European family firms in Europe, North America and the BRIC countries

Procher, Vivien D.; Urbig, Diemo; Volkmann, Christine - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2013

, particularly in Europe and North America. Furthermore the BRIC countries Brazil, Russia, India and China do not constitute a …

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and the Costs of Corporate Taxation

Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2007

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Globalisation of production and innovation: how outsourcing is reshaping an advanced manufacturing area.

Cusmano, Lucia; Mancusi, Maria Luisa; Morrison, Andrea - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2006

Pervasive outsourcing is transforming business models and productive relations in advanced manufacturing areas. In particular, the international dimension of outsourcing, off-shoring, has been attracting great attention, as it leads to the emergence of global value chains and internationally...

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Technology Spillovers and Innovation - the importance of domestic and foreign sources

Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper asks whether there is evidence of higher innovation output from firms where there is more foreign activity in terms of foreign direct investments (FDI), trade and collaboration on innovation, or if proximity between innovators is more important. With a sample of about two-thirds of...

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