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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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Post-acquisition performance of emerging market firms: A multi-dimensional analysis of acquisitions in India
Das, Arindam - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 12, pp. 1-18
equation model has been developed and it has been tested with a dataset on acquisitions in the Indian technology sector over a …
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Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI?
Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan H. - 2003
All countries are eager to attract as much foreign investments as possible. At the same time FDI may have not only positive, but also negative economic effects for receiving countries. Positive effects are associated with technology transfer, efficient allocation of resources, and training of...
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Do Ukrainian firms benefit from FDI
Lutz, Stefan H.; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2003
All countries are eager to attract as much foreign investments as possible. At the same time FDI may have not only positive, but also negative economic effects for receiving countries. Positive effects are associated with technology transfer, efficient allocation of resources, and training of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301121
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Enterprise productivity: a three-speed Europe
Dall'Olio, Andrea; Iootty, Mariana; Kanehira, Naoto; … - 2014
Between 2003 and 2008 productivity patterns diverged between the fast growing, newest members of the European Union and the slower paced, elder ones – as would be expected. However, there are also striking divergences within the latter group, with productivity in Southern Europe going into...
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Effects of Foreign Presence in a Transition Economy: Regional and Industry-Wide Investments and Firm-Level Exports in Ukrainian Manufacturing
Lutz, Stefan; Talavera, Oleksandr; Park, Sang-Min - 2006
We investigate the effects of regional and industry?wide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 1996?2000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms?...
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Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro F. - 2013
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...
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Risk tolerance and entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K.; Panos, Georgios A. - 2013
A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: Cherry-picking and lemon-grabbing
Weche-Gelübcke, John P. - 2012
This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most important FDI inflow destinations worldwide. Using a new database from German official statistics, unconditional comparisons as well as binary response model estimations of takeover...
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