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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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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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Foreign Bank Entry into Emerging Economies: An Empirical Assessment of the Determinants and Risks Predicated on German FDI Data
Wezel, Torsten - 2004
The paper investigates the factors crucial in the locational decisions of multinational German banks in selected emerging markets of central and eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia between 1994 and 2001. Emphasis is placed on testing variables of macroeconomic and financial sector risk along...
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Does co-financing by multilateral development banks increase "risky" direct investment in emerging markets?
Wezel, Torsten - 2004
The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated that the presence of an official lender in a project gives...
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Determinants of German Foreign Direct Investment in Latin American and Asian Emerging Markets in the 1990s
Wezel, Torsten - 2003
Many empirical studies in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI) exclusively focus on flows between industrialized countries. This article makes a contribution to the still relatively sparse literature on FDI in emerging markets by estimating determinants of German FDI flows to Latin...
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Determinants of acquisition and failure: stylized facts and lessons for empirical studies
Köke, Jens - 2001
, we find that the industry distribution is significantly different for failure and acquisitions. This calls for some kind …
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Using rival effects to identify synergies and improve merger typologies
Clougherty, Joseph A.; Duso, Tomaso - 2011
The strategy literature has found it difficult to differentiate between collusive and efficiencybased synergies in horizontal merger activity. We propose a theoretically-backed methodological approach to classify mergers that yields more information on merger types and merger effects, and that...
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