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This paper examines the impact of multinational firms' increasingly blurred geographical and institutional boundaries on the nature and definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It begins with a brief history of CSR, describes changes in the global corporation and the pressures...
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This paper analyzes how the European Union has responded to Inward Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets, particularly in the so-called Strategic Industries. Attention is focused on two sectors which have long been considered strategic assets by most countries around the world for...
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Despite increased interest in headquarters (HQ) and their activities, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of HQ relocations and their consequences. We seek to address this gap by examining whether HQ relocations are primarily driven by cost-reduction or value-creation...
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This study aims to explain the variation in empirical estimates in the literature on the elasticity of foreign direct investment with respect to company tax levels. To that end, we extend the meta analysis of De Mooij and Ederveen (2003) by considering an alternative classification of the...
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Last year, the author of this paper presented his essay “From Back-Seat to Dashboard: The Global Navigation of International Corporate Communications”, showing that systematic understanding of international corporate communications (ICC) is not well developed and proposing a heuristic grid...
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When investing in a foreign country, multinational enterprises face social, political and organizational information asymmetries. This liability of foreignness (LOF) introduces additional costs, threaten profitability and deter foreign direct investments. In this study we investigate if certain...
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This paper aims to characterize the role of responsible business conduct (RBC)/corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the European Union's (EU) common investment policy. It explores how the EU uses CSR/RBC to promote sustainable development in the context of foreign direct investment...
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Nowadays we are witnessing multinational corporations (“Multinationals”) growing to be more powerful than certain countries. Joel Bakan perceives this “dramatic rise to dominance [as] one of the remarkable events of modern history” (emphasis added). But is this ‘rise' in fact ‘fall'...
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Using six years of firm-level data covering 224 regions of the enlarged European Union, we evaluate the importance to a firm of locating its activities (production, headquarters, R&D, logistics and sales) close together. We find that, after controlling for regional characteristics, being closely...
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