The import competition literature suggests that Chinese industrial policies and technological trends have altered the … a sample of Austrian manufacturing companies to explore the impact of increasing competition on changes in corporate … strategy. We propose a novel indicator capturing import competition that highly internationalised companies face. We examine …

relationship between trade status, firm size and firm-level productivity in the Netherlands, thereby focusing particularly on small … ranking by trade status of Dutch manufacturing firms in increasing order of productivity is: non-traders, importers, exporters …-level productivity. The results point in the direction of self-selection of more productive manufacturing firms into importing …

a decade ago. In addition to losing 1.4 million jobs across the manufacturing and construction sectors, new industries … an efficient innovation system or substantial R&D investments, were ignored. Going forward, governmental reforms should …