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Multinational Firms, Internal Capital Markets, and the Value of Global Diversification
Sturgess, Jason - 2012
on whether global diversification is valuable is inconclusive. This paper uses detailed FDI data for 251 UK multinational … firms and 4,676 subsidiaries to show that multinational firms exhibit, on average, a global diversification premium compared … multinational firms' investment and global diversification have significantly increased over the past three decades …
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Multinational Firms, International Diversification, Value, and Governance
Sturgess, Jason - 2012
, on average, an international diversification premium of 19%. Further, the value premium is increasing in the difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116775
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What Do Firms Know? What Do They Produce? A New Look at the Relationship between Patenting Profiles and Patterns of Product Diversification
Dosi, Giovanni - 2015
In this work we analyze the relationship between the patterns of firm diversification, if any, across product lines and … scope, their relationships, the size-scaling and coherence properties of diversification itself. Our analysis shows that … technologies increase log-linearly with firm size. And the directions of diversification themselves display coherence between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022886
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Spotify : from music streaming start-up to global audio company
Schmid, Stefan; Romey, Tobias - 2022
During the last few decades, the internet and digital technology have fundamentally changed the global music industry. As a consequence, new companies and novel business models have emerged. Spotify, one of the new players in the music industry, has expanded its business activities and grown to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014022598
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Globally engaged firms in the Covid-19 crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013183698
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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana M.; Poupakis, … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291442
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Securitizing Innovation to Protect Trade Secrets Between 'the East' and 'the West' : A Neo-Schumpeterian Public Legal Reading
Vecellio Segate, Riccardo - 2020
The first target of today's global commercial and military espionage, trade secrets, are the only form of intellectual property protection to be based on the necessity of nondisclosure and secrecy rather than on the paradigm of publicity and exploitability, with the obvious consequence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830836
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Limited managerial attention and corporate aging
Loderer, Claudio; Stulz, René M.; Waelchli, Urs - 2013
As firms have more assets in place, more of management's limited attention is focused on managing assets in place rather than developing new growth options. Consequently, as firms grow older, they have fewer growth options and a lower ability to generate new growth options. This simple theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227727
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Risiken infolge von Technologie-Outsourcing?
Stephan, Michael (contributor) - 2007
in großer Anteil der multinational tätigen Großunternehmen ist in technologieintensiven, dynamischen Branchen tätig und verfügt über ein breites Spektrum an technologischen Ressourcen. In den vergangenen Dekaden hat ein Großteil dieser Unternehmen zunehmend Wertschöpfungsleistungen an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634028
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Productivity and heterogeneous knowledge : exploring the relationship in a sample of drug developers
Bottazzi, Giulio; Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2010
This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms developing drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. We decompose knowledge into knowledge associated with the technological firm portfolio and knowledge related to R&D projects, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989032