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Knowledge acquisition for SMEs first entering developing economies : evidence from Senegal
Suárez Ortega, Sonia Maria; García Cabrera, Antonia … - In: European journal of management and business economics : … 25 (2016) 1, pp. 22-35
in developed economies, those firms entering into developing economies should acquire new knowledge resources for a … successful entry. In this paper, we analyze the type of knowledge required by SMEs to enter a foreign market, the alternative … sources for acquiring that knowledge, and the specific challenges associated with the case of SMEs from developed economies in …
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Assessing market for multi-national corporations at Nigeria's bottom of the pyramid : hints from consumer behaviour
Adebayo, Nathaniel Adeyemi - In: International journal of management, economics and … 2 (2013) 3, pp. 157-186
Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been bedeviled by controversies. A major controversy is whether...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Local Small and Medium Enterprises and Technology Transfer in Developing Countries : A Story from Indonesia
Tambunan, Tulus - 2008
Official reports, academic papers and many case studies on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries show that large enterprises (LEs) produce better products than those by SMEs, partly because the first enterprises have better technology, which make them more innovated...
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What global fragmentation means for the WTO : Article XXIV, behind-the-border concessions, and a new case for WTO limits on investment incentives
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014 - Manuscript date: December 19, 2013
The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...
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Conclusions : Upgrading Capabilities to Build an Emerging Market Multinational
Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro - 2018
upgrading and their internationalization speed and breadth. Second, the four alternative upgrading strategies for … internationalization that emerging market firms use: Improvement, whereby firms upgrade processes at the local level; Integration, whereby …
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Global Value Chains : What are the Benefits and Why Do Countries Participate?
Raei, Faezeh - 2019
Over the last two decades, world trade and production have become increasingly organized around global value chains (GVC). Recent theoretical work has shown that countries can benefit from participation in GVCs through multiple channels. However, little is known empirically about the economic...
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Economic Deglobalization – From Hypothesis to Reality
Postelnicu, Catalin - 2015
Lately, a new term is used in international economic literature, namely “de-globalization” which has already sparked off numerous debates. As expected, some economists were quick to adopt it unhesitatingly, but others have labelled it as “absurd”, “superficial”, “simple”,...
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Proactive Fast-Tracking Diffusion of Supermarkets in Developing Countries : Implications for Market Institutions and Trade
Reardon, Thomas - 2010
Supermarkets have spread extremely rapidly in developing countries after the take-off in the early to mid-1990s. Former analyses of supermarket diffusion have not adequately explained the sudden burst and then exponential diffusion of supermarkets in the late 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that...
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Global Value Chains in economic development
Herr, Hansjörg; Dünhaupt, Petra - 2019
Global Value Chains (GVCs) started to play an increasing and key role in the global economy from the 1990s on. The market mechanism in GVCs supports industrialisation in the Global South and under certain conditions product and process upgrading. But GVCs do not lead to the catching-up of...
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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
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