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Cross-cultural management: culture and management across the world
Chanlat, Jean-François; Davel, Eduardo; Dupuis, Jean-Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
-cultural management texts by highlighting to the reader the need to avoid both ethnocentrism and the belief in the universality of his or … her own values and ways of thinking: the success of international negotiations and intercultural management depends on … work. Cross-Cultural Management will help interested parties – students of business management, international relations and …
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Direct investment activity of foreign firms
Kahley, William J. - In: Economic Review (1987) Sum, pp. 36-51
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Understanding international prices: customers as capital
Drozd, Lukasz A.; Nosal, Jaromir B. - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - 2008
This paper develops a theory of pricing-to-market driven by marketing and bargaining frictions. Our key innovation is a capital theoretic model of marketing in which relations with customers are valuable. In our model, producers search and form long-lasting relations with their customers, and...
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Interactions between domestic and foreign investment
Stevens, Guy V.G.; Lipsey, Robert E. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1988
This paper studies both the domestic and foreign fixed investment expenditures of a sample of U. S. multinational firms. In addition to explaining empirically each type of investment, an important goal is to determine whether there are significant interactions between expenditures in the...
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Flexible exchange rates, multinational corporations, and accounting standards
Makin, John H. - In: Economic Review (1977) Fall, pp. 44-55
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Precommitment and random exchange rates in symmetric duopoly: a new theory of multinational production
Nickerson, David; Courchane, Marsha; Sadanand, Venkatraman - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 1990
Recent volatility in real exchange rates has renewed interest in the nature of multinational firms. One increasingly common phenomenon involves the foreign sourcing of production, in which certain domestic firms choose to produce part or all of their product abroad and then export the commodity...
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Heterogeneous multinational firms and productivity gains from falling FDI barriers
Arita, Shawn; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
During the past decade of declining FDI barriers, small domestic firms disproportionately contracted while large multinational firms experienced a substantial growth in Japan’s manufacturing sector. This paper quantitatively assesses the impact of FDI globalization on intra-industry...
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Simulating heterogeneous multinational firms
Arita, Shawn; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
This paper develops a micro-simulation framework for multinational entry and sales activities across countries. The model is based on Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz's (2010) quantitative trade model adapted towards multinational production. Using micro data on Japanese manufacturing firms, we first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351426
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Domestic, vertical, and horizontal multinationals : a general equilibrium approach using the "knowledge capital model"
Oyamada, Kazuhiko; Uchida, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
One of the key factors behind the growth in global trade in recent decades is an increase in intermediate input as a result of the development of vertical production networks (Feensta, 1998). It is widely recognized that the formation of production networks is due to the expansion of...
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Core competencies and the structure of foreign direct investment
Díez, Federico J.; Spearot, Alan C. - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2011
We develop a matching model of foreign direct investment to study how multinational firms choose between greenfield investment, acquisitions, and joint ventures. For all entry modes, firms must invest in a continuum of tasks to bring a product to market. Each firm possesses a core competency in...
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