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strategy. We propose a novel indicator capturing import competition that highly internationalised companies face. We examine …
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of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … manufacturing and service sectors offshore outsourcing of services has a positive effect on employment. In addition it was found … offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment, whereas in …
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This paper examines the bidirectional causality between innovation and internationalization in the context of developing countries. Using a dynamic bivariate probit model and adopting a broad definition of internationalization, this paper analyzes these issues using a panel dataset of small and...
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Business is becoming increasingly international. At the same time, governments are intervening more in the conduct of business. A further development is the growing significance of emerging economies, many of which have a tradition of active government involvement with business. Taken together,...
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By drawing on new interview evidence gathered during several field trips and new financial and economic data from both external and internal sources, we document and assess the changing economic importance and performance of the Mondragon group of cooperatives as well as the two largest sectors...
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Over the period 1980-2007 multinational firms' investment grew four times faster than worldwide GDP. Yet the evidence on whether global diversification is valuable is inconclusive. This paper uses detailed FDI data for 251 UK multinational firms and 4,676 subsidiaries to show that multinational...
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Using the cases of Wal-Mart and IKEA, this paper takes a productive systems approach to examine ‘varieties of capitalism' from the perspective of the ways by which production and market relations are structured and prioritized. It considers the nature of these relations and their interaction...
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customers. It also takes a customer as well as a supplier perspective. The book provides guidance on both strategy and … over 60 senior executives, as well as a detailed multi-level survey completed by 27 executives. The authors obtained …
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The paper aims to find the link between cultural difference of global virtual teams and their competitive advantage by examining contributions of cultural difference/diversity to firm's innovation, knowledge sharing, team member's motivation and firm decision-making, and relations in between....
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