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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2008
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and … globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms' efforts to raise their … into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation …
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430827
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Assessing the Spillover Effects of FDI to the Philippines
Aldaba, Rafaelita M.; Aldaba, Fernando T. - 2010
The experience of the Philippines shows that FDI spillover effects are not automatically generated. Opening up the economy to FDI has contributed to the country's exports of high-technology products and overall economic growth. However, the spillover effects of FDI to domestic firms have...
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Unionisation structures, productivity, and firm performance
Braun, Sebastian - 2009
This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer welfare in a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and free entry. While centralised bargaining induces tougher selection among hetero- geneous producers and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263769
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Imports and profitability in the euro area manufacturing sector: the role of emerging market economies
Peltonen, Tuomas A.; Skala, Martin; Santos Rivera, Alvaro; … - 2008
The paper analyses the impact of import penetration on firms’ profitability in 15 manufacturing industries in 10 euro area countries during 1995-2004, focusing on the role of emerging market economies. Our results indicate that import competition from emerging market economies has had an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604964
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Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie: neue Standorte auf dem Vormarsch, traditionelle Anbieter unter Druck?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2000
Der Beitrag analysiert die internationalen Produktionsverlagerungen und Investitionsverflechtungen in der Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissensund technologieintensiver Güter zu einem nachdrängenden Wettbewerb aus Ländern mit...
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Exports, product differentiation and knowledge spillovers
León-Ledesma, Miguel - 2002
Empirical studies on aggregate export behaviour have recently emphasised the role played by innovation as the main … force driving product differentiation and competitiveness for developed countries. These studies treat foreign innovation as … a variable that affects negatively national export shares. We incorporate the impact of foreign innovation in a standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290660
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The Effect of Ownership and Competitive Pressure on Firm Performance in Transition Countries. Micro Evidence from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland
Estrin, Saul; Konings, Jozef; Zolkiewski, Zbigniew; … - 2001
This paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Domestic competitive pressure,...
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Impact of strategic management, corporate social responsibility on firm performance in the post mandate period: Evidence from India
Mitra, Nayan - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 6 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in. In the developed economy, it takes the form of sustainability and/ or philanthropy, whereas, in emerging economies, it speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated...
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