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Prior literature is ambivalent about whether organizational complexity has positive or negative effects on firm performance. Using rich data on global service providers, we explore this ambivalence by disentangling performance consequences of different types of organizational complexity. We show...
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The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new form of client-specific investment promoting services integration with clients by combining client proximity with time-zone spread for 24/7 service operations. We investigate...
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As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
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This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations … in the period 1982-2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more … synchronized business cycles during 1995-2001. Before 1995, we also find a positive association between FDI linkages and output …
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Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are important to explain recent labour market developments in many...
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between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … empirical analysis is conducted at three levels of aggregation. We find the relationship between FDI and domestic …
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In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use … quot;qualityquot; to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because … differentiate quality FDI in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector …
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even existence of knowledge spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI). This article reviews the recent theoretical … knowledge spillovers from FDI. Studies on the importance of mediating factors and FDI heterogeneity are less conclusive and …, mediating factors, and FDI heterogeneity. Studies that take into account individual spillover channels find robust evidence of …
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This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property …'s accession to the World Trade Organization) (WTO) in 2001. We also show that there is a positive upstream spillover effect of FDI …
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