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Do strategic alliances, acquisitions, and R&D investments act as complements or substitutes?
Martynov, Aleksey - In: Foundations of Management 8 (2016) 1, pp. 7-20
, acquisitions and internal R&D investments. The findings indicate that a firm's absorptive capacity affects the presence of … effects between alliances and acquisitions and between alliances and internal R&D investments. Firms with high absorptive … capacity also exhibit complementarities between acquisitions and additional R&D investments. These results were obtained from …
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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...
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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market
Almeida, Rita K. - 2003
Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct investment translates into higher demand for educated workers or higher wages, however, since foreign investment...
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What drives Chinese overseas M&A investment? Evidence from micro data
Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Sultan, Samina; Xing, Jing - In: Review of International Economics 30 (2021) 1, pp. 306-344
In recent years Chinese foreign acquisitions have increased significantly. In Europe and the United States, these … the acquisitions lead to undesirable technology transfer, or that they may have negative consequences for the employees of … the target firm. We use a large deal‐level dataset on cross‐border acquisitions to investigate whether Chinese foreign …
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Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing
Sjöholm, Fredrik; Lipsey, Robert E.; Sun, Jing - 2010
Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...
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Cross-border mergers and Greenfield foreign direct investment
Stepanok, Ignat - 2012
and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Working in a monopolistically competitive environment, merging firms do not reduce …
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GLOBALIZATION AND INNOVATION IN EMERGING MARKETS
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherinr - 2008
Globalization bring opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using recent data on firms in 27 transition economies, we test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increasedcompetition and...
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance?
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2008
We analyse a large stratified random sample of firms that provide measures of each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints. Specifically, we use the 2005 and 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect...
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States
Chari, Anusha; Chen, Wenjie; Dominguez, Kathryn M. E. - 2009
This paper examines the recent upsurge in foreign acquisitions of U.S. firms, specifically focusing on acquisitions …
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2007
Abstract: We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated...
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