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Financial Constraints and the Margins of FDI
Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - 2009
Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
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Financial Constraints and the Margins of FDI
Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - 2009
Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427554
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The internationalization process of firms: From exports to FDI?
Conconi, Paola; Sapir, André; Zanardi, Maurizio - 2010
We describe a simple model in which domestic firms decide whether to serve a foreign market through exports or horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). This choice involves a trade-off between the higher variable trade costs associated with exports and the higher fixed set-up costs associated...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427459
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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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The Taxing Deed of Globalization
Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey; Strecker, Nora - 2016
We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and … increasing mobility of firms and high-income workers, globalization led governments in OECD countries to seek tax revenues from …-2007, they experienced a globalization-induced rise in their personal income tax rate of around 1.5, whereas the top 1% of …
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The management of human resources in the Asia Pacific: Into the 21st century
Rowley, Chris; Warner, Malcolm - In: Management Revue 18 (2007) 4, pp. 374-391
In this introduction, we look at the management of human resources in the Asia Pacific region. We start with an overview of the countries involved, ranging from the hugely populated China to the city-State of Singapore, proposing three categories of economies and the people-management systems,...
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