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This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it looks at whether family control is an obstacle to entering foreign markets. The underlying assumption is that family firms are risk averse. Risk aversion may be an obstacle to...
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Las pequeñas y medianas empresas –en adelante las pyme– son actores fundamentales de la economía colombiana, tal como ocurre en otros países. El acelerado ritmo de la globalización impone retos para estas compañías a partir de las nuevas oportunidades y amenazas que se gestan en el...
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This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it looks at whether family control is an obstacle to entering foreign markets. The underlying assumption is that family firms are risk averse. Risk aversion may be an obstacle to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701793
This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it looks at whether family control is an obstacle to entering foreign markets. The underlying assumption is that family firms are risk averse. Risk aversion may be an obstacle to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666735
In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551733
The aim of this paper is analysing the role of internal and external financial constraints in the firms’ joint decision to export and invest in R&D. Our empirical strategy consists of estimating a bivariate probit that explicitly acknowledges that a firm R&D and export decisions are...
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uses panel data from Ghana to ask how skills have impacted on manufacturing investment and exports in the 1990s. Two … investment and exports. These exports are relatively capital intensive; unskilled labour-intensive exports remain negligible …
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Purpose – The paper aims to examine the effects of outward foreign direct investment (O-FDI) on home-country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 and 2007 is employed for a model in which...
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manufacturing data for 15 industries over the period between 1991 and 2007. Findings – The authors find that exports in Taiwan are … exports and concurs with the majority of earlier empirical findings which focus on developed home countries. The authors also … strength of the relationship between O-FDI and home country exports. …
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Purpose – Considerable research has been conducted on the comparative advantage of Chinese manufactured exports before … groups and nine small groups, which cover the majority of Chinese manufactured exports. Findings – First, the authors found … products with very high comparative advantage are small. Third, as a whole, Chinese manufactured exports are of greater …
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