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Tough Love : Do Czech Suppliers Learn from Their Relationships with Multinationals?

Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Spatareanu, Mariana - 2009

spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. While the empirical studies have cast doubt on the … productivity level. The evidence is suggestive of both high productivity firms having a higher probability of supplying …

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Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity : Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry

Ghosal, Vivek; Nair-Reichert, Usha - 2015

This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …

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Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity : Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry

Ghosal, Vivek; Nair-Reichert, Usha - 2015

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Anti-migration as a threat to internationalization? : a review of the migration-internationalization literature

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018

Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...

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The Real Effects of Foreign Investment : Productivity and Growth

Petkova, Neviana - 2012

-invested firms grow in size but not in productivity compared with non-invested firms over a four-year horizon. Decomposing foreign … group firms resulting in little effect on productivity or growth but leading to growth in stand-alone firms. Foreign …

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Can Local Content Requirements in International Investment Agreements Be Justified?

Tomsik, Vladimir; Kubicek, Jan - 2008

The paper implementing the imperfect competitive equilibrium model, increasing returns to scale, the coordination failure problem and the learning-by-doing argument discusses the economic efficiency of local content requirements (LCRs). It is shown that the LCRs are economically unjustifiable...

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Regulation, red tape and location choices of top R&D investors

Ciriaci, Daria; Grassano, Nicola; Vezzani, Antonio - 2016

This paper investigates how product and labour market regulations and red tape affect the way in which top corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide organise their cross-border operations. The decision about where a company locates its international subsidiaries is modelled...

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The Global Big Oil on the Way to Business Model Innovation?

Bereznoy, Alexey - 2015

The paper explores the current changes in the global strategy of the elite of the international oil companies, the so-called supermajors, within the context of the potential business model innovation. The work aims to make two main contributions. First, by analyzing recent shifts in the world...

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Towards a new growth model in CESEE : convergence and competitiveness through smart, green and inclusive investment

Gereben, Áron; Wruuck, Patricia - 2021

This paper focuses on the growth and convergence of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE … direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose …

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Green Investment by Firms : Finance or Climate Driven?

Kalantzis, Fotios; Schweiger, Helena; Dominguez, Sofia - 2022

There is limited research on the determinants of firms’ green investment strategies in developing regions despite their importance to meet global climate change targets. Understanding how changes in firm climate investment affect environmental performance is essential for policy makers and...

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