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Leading in Switzerland and Poland: A case study of leadership practices in financial services
Steinmann, Marc; Pugnetti, Carlo - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-13
by surveying employees about their leadership expectations and experiences, as well as about their cultural values. We … find that the leadership expectations of employees in these two locations do not differ significantly. However, their … experience does, indicating the opportunity for further development of local Polish management practices and leadership behavior …
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Zwei Kapitel aus der Frühgeschichte der Münchener Rückversicherung [Two Chapters on early history of the Munich Reinsurance Company: The Foundation/ The San Francisco Earthquake]...
Spree, Reinhard - 2010
The Munich Re was founded in 1880 and is from the very start till this day one of the leading insurance companies in the world. Despite its long and successfull existance the company’s history has not been reported yet in a way that fulfilled scientific criteria. This paper can be seen as a...
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Investment agreements and the fragmentation of firms across countries
Betz, Timm; Pond, Amy; Yin, Weiwen - In: The Review of International Organizations 16 (2020) 4, pp. 755-791
We examine the global ownership structure of firms in the context of the investment regime. Investment agreements extend valuable privileges to firms invested abroad. But, these privileges only apply to firms whose assets are owned in a country that has signed an agreement with their host...
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Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2015
Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The FDI effect is more pronounced for firms from advanced...
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Born local: two avenues to internationalization
Ács, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri - 2007
Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...
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Distance-related barriers and the internationalisation of Finnish MNES
Lundan, Sarianna M. - 2009
In an integrated global economy, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have more opportunities than ever to reap the benefits of broader markets and more possibilities for an extensive division of labour between different locations. In spite of this, the evidence on the spread of the activities of...
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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2013
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
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Apoio à exportação: Evidências empíricas e desafios para futuras pesquisas
Schmidt, Flávia de Holanda; da Silva, Jorge Ferreira - 2012
The strengthening of the commitment to export assistance and the establishment of comprehensive programs to foster export activities of firms are part of public policies in almost all developed and developing countries. In recent decades, not only the amount devoted by governments to these...
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Regional and global patterns of internationalisation of Finnish MNES
Lundan, Sarianna M.; Tolvanen, Juha - 2008
Much of the recent evidence on the internationalisation patterns of Finnish MNEs has come from analyses of the Top 30 firms. This paper uses newly available data from the Orbis database on the foreign affiliates of Finnish MNEs, and compares this to the existing sources of data from the Bank of...
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