Die Personalpolitik US-amerikanischer multinationaler Unternehmen weist einige gemeinsame Züge auf, die man ihrer Einbettung in das Heimatland ("country of origin") zurechnen kann. In dem vorliegenden Band werden Forschungsergebnisse präsentiert, die die Umsetzung der amerikanischen...

We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997) and find coagglomeration to be important for a number of...

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...