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This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
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This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332768
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654345
labor force in neither of both countries. Further, acquisitions in knowledge-intensive industries lead to improvements in … domestic productivity. Our results display some heterogeneity across industries and types of acquisitions, suggesting a … connection between the motives for international acquisitions and their resulting effects. …
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This study examines performance gaps among foreign-owned and domestically- owned Austrian firms. In line with earlier findings our results suggest that the positive effects of participating in a foreign multinational's network can mainly be found in productivity and profitability. A further...
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-border acquisitions and greenfield investments as different modes of FDI using a rich dataset of British firms. While multinational firms …-border acquisitions. Cross-border deals involve the most productive firms in sectors with a high share of intangible assets, but the least …
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possible channels for a distinct cost-of-capital effect on FDI. Using a sample of European firms' cross-border acquisitions …
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-financial firms' international acquisitions. Controlling for traditional firm- and target-country-specific FDI determinants within an …
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of ?outsourcing? using establishment level data for UK manufacturing industries. We analyse an establishment?s decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment?s productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with...
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This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...
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