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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2009
This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888033
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Drivers for International Innovation Activities in Developed and Emerging Countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2013
distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform … paper is to show how internal firm capabilities as well as external forces from the firm’s business and national innovation … environment impact on the firm's decision to carry out different innovation activities abroad. The analysis is based on around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201135
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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of multinational firms : new firm-level evidence
Arndt, Christian; Mattes, Anselm - 2010
FDI is an important channel for productivity spillovers across economies. But productivity and employment effects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on multinational firms are rather unclear and much disputed. We empirically analyze the effects of cross-border M&A on the performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747562
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Technology Sourcing and FDI in the EC : An Empirical Evaluation
Neven, Damien - 2016
This paper presents an econometric analysis of foreign direct investment flows in the four large countries of the EC, at the sectoral level and for the period 1984-89. We find that technological sourcing might be an important motive behind investment flows originating in the US and Japan but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986476
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The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiorno and East Germany
Urban, Dieter M.; Peri, Giovanni - 2003
The presence of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) can benefit local economies. In particular, if MNEs are very productive compared to domestic firms, they may promote learning and catch-up of local firms. Such a channel of spillovers from MNEs to local firms is known as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103737
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Are workers with multinational experience a determinant in startup success?
Flaherty, Eoin T. - 2024
This paper examines whether former foreign MNE workers help domestic startup firms succeed. I find evidence consistent with the idea that, as founding workers, former MNE workers positively contribute to startup outcomes. However, this appears conditional on survival. Using an event study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051358
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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector’s labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011842194
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Positionierung der deutschen Industrie im globalen Konsolidierungsprozess : im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Reinhard, Michael; Schedl, Hans - 2007
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie erstellt und im Oktober 2006 abgeschlossen. Gegenstand der Studie ist die Untersuchung des Globalisierungs- und Anpassungsprozesses sowie seiner Ergebnisse in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848145
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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853655
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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014
foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354622