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The embeddedness of US multinational companies in the US business system: implications for HR/IR

Ferner, Anthony - Leicester Business School - 2000

The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...

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German Inbound Investment, Corporate Tax Planning, and Thin-Capitalization Rules - A Difference-in-Differences Approach

Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Taxes play an important role in determining the capital structure of companies. Consequently,a multinational company would choose its capital structure according to differencesin international taxation. Unlike purely national firms, multinationals can also use intercompanyloans to shift profits...

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Do foreign players change the nature of the game among local entrepreneurs?

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2004

The effect of foreign-owned companies on entrepreneurial survival in the Finnish business sector is analyzed by using a new, exceptionally rich linked data on employees, entrepreneurs and their companies. Our new indicator of foreign presence, based on the observed spatial scopes of the local...

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Productivity and international firm activities: What do we know?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper summarizes in a non-technical way what we know from empirical studies based on firm-level data about the mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in an evidencebased way. A special focus is on the...

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Exports and productivity: a survey of the evidence from firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and...

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The management of human resources in Malaysia: Locally-owned companies and multinational companies

Rowley, Chris; Abdul-Rahman, Saaidah - In: Management Revue 18 (2007) 4, pp. 427-453

This paper is concerned with people management practices in companies in Malaysia. It examines the development of the main practice areas of the management of human resources (HR), the HR management (HRM) function and to what extent locallyowned companies (LOC) are influenced by multinational...

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Auslandsforschung deutscher Unternehmen: kaum Belege für Abwanderung

Belitz, Heike; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 46, pp. 725-731

Die Analyse der Patentanmeldungen deutscher Unternehmen am Europäischen Patentamt zeigt: Die Unternehmen lenken ihre … Unternehmen ihre Auslandsforschung aus einer Position der relativen Schwäche im Heimatland. Ein politisch besonders kontroverses …

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Deutsche Unternehmen forschen weniger im Ausland

Belitz, Heike - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 20, pp. 2-8

Deutschland hat von der Internationalisierung der Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in multinationalen Unternehmen … profitiert. Nachdem die internationale FuE-Bilanz bis 2001 ausgeglichen war, investieren ausländische Unternehmen inzwischen in … Deutschland mehr in FuE als deutsche Unternehmen im Ausland. Der Anteil der FuE-Aufwendungen deutscher Unternehmen im Ausland ist …

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Footloose Multinationals in Belgium

Van Beveren, Ilke - 2006

Using firm level panel data for the years 1996-2001, covering all sectors of the economy, the impact of multinational ownership on the exit decisions of firms located in Belgium is estimated. In the analysis, I clearly distinguish for nationality of ownership, allowing for possible differences...

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Kehren deutsche Firmen ihrer Heimat den Rücken? - Ausländische Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen

Becker, Sascha O.; Jäckle, Robert; Mündler, Marc-Andreas - In: ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2005) 01, pp. 23-33

Ausländischen Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen und deren Auswirkungen auf den heimischen Arbeitsmarkt wird in … Beweggründe deutscher Unternehmen bei ihrer Standortentscheidung noch deren Arbeitsmarktwirkungen zu erschließen. …

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