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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? The growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries
Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...
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The Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Swedish Multinationals 1998
Ekholm, Karolina; Hesselman, Marie - 2000
This paper presents the results of a survey of Swedish multinationals conducted in 1999. The survey was carried out in order to update an existing database on Swedish manufacturing firms with producing foreign affiliates collected by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI). The...
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Pay more, earn less, work harder-new evidence on foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency in emerging markets
Jensen, Camilla - 2009
Foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency effects are estimated and confronted in this paper using a rich firm-level panel for Polish manufacturing. Besides estimating total factor productivity, other performance measures are calculated and contrasted such as labor productivity,...
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Power in the Multinational Corporation in Industry Equilibrium
Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2007
Recent theories of the multinational corporation introduce the property rights model of the firm and examine whether to integrate our outsource firm activities locally or to a foreign country. This paper focus instead on the internal organization of the multinational corporation by examining the...
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There's No Place Like Home: The Profitability Gap between Headquarters and their Foreign Subsidiaries
Dischinger, Matthias; Riedel, Nadine - 2009
Using a large panel data set for European firms, this paper provides evidence that operations at multinational headquarters are significantly more profitable than perations at their foreign subsidiaries. The effect turns out to be robust and quantitatively large. Our findings suggest that the...
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Organization of Multinational Activities and Ownership Structure
Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006
distance may have a non-monotonous effect on the likelihood of horizontal investments, and (iii) that globalization, if …
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Intercultural communication in business ventures illustrated by two case studies
Hinner, Michael B.; Rülke, Tessa - 2002
The information and communications revolution has hastened the process of globalization in today's world of business …
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Auslandsforschung deutscher Unternehmen: kaum Belege für Abwanderung
Belitz, Heike; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 46, pp. 725-731
Die Analyse der Patentanmeldungen deutscher Unternehmen am Europäischen Patentamt zeigt: Die Unternehmen lenken ihre Forschungsaktivitäten im Ausland vor allem in die Hochtechnologiebereiche, in denen sie seit langem besonders intensiv forschen. Dies sind die Elektrotechnik, Steuerungstechnik,...
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Globalization, creative destruction, and labor share change: Evidence on the determinants and mechanism from longitudinal plant-level data
Maliranta, Mika; Böckerman, Petri - 2009
We examine the sources and micro-level mechanisms of the changes in the labor share of value added. We link the micro-level dynamics of the labor share change with that of productivity and wage growth. Using a useful variant of the decomposition method we make a distinction between the change in...
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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D: An introduction based on the European experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: Globalization and Corporate R&D forthcoming in …
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