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Global Value Chains, Foreign Direct Investment, and Taxation

Dahlby, Bev - 2012

This research volume is concerned with the causes and consequences of global value chains — the fragmentation of production across firms and international boundaries. Figure 1 provides a schema for thinking about these phenomena. The total value of inputs used in producing a given level of...

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The Social Question in a Transnational Context

Somek, Alexander - 2014

The social question has come down upon us in two different understandings. Modestly understood, it is about helping the needy and creating opportunities for disadvantaged members of society. More ambitiously conceived, by contrast, it is about extricating human life generally from the false...

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The Argument From Transnational Effects II : Establishing Transnational Democracy

Somek, Alexander - 2010

This article continues with a discussion of what the author calls the argument from transnational effects. It says that supranational or transnational forms of integration, in particular market integration, are desirable on account of democracy itself. National democracies find themselves...

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Valuing Headquarters (HQS) : Analysis of the Role, Value and Benefit of HQS in Global Value Chains

Bloom, Michael; Grant, Michael - 2012

This report explores the growing importance of corporate headquarters in a world of global value chains. It examines … headquarters around the world and in Canada. It concludes with suggestions as to how governments may encourage headquarters to … locate in Canada. Governments around the world are keen to attract headquarters to their jurisdictions for a variety of …

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The Internationalization of R&D

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

In the past decade, policymakers and others in a number of developed countries have expressed concern that firms in their countries appear to be increasingly locating their R&D facilities outside the home country. For example, in Foray and van Ark (2007), we read: “There are concerns expressed...

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The Unknown Global Players (Die Unbekannten Global Players)

Sievert, Holger - 2010

Corporate communication is becoming increasingly international. Very little is known, however, about the profile, business context and qualifications of German PR specialists responsible for this worldwide communication. This article reports on the initial findings of a new study on this topic

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