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Going Global: The Challenges for Knowledge-based Economies
Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; Loikkanen, Torsti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The present volume aims to provide a comprehensive and systemic overview of the challenges that going global poses to knowledge based economies. Its focus is four-fold. 1) Firstly, it investigates why companies, especially high-tech firms, go global, i.e. which are the drivers that push...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789367
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952118
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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427568
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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478849
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Les grands groupes et l’innovation:définitions et enjeux du Corporate Venture
Garel, Gilles; Jumel, Sébastien - In: Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie 8 (2005) 4, pp. 33-61
(VF)Le corporate venture consiste à structurer les relations entre un grand groupe et une jeune entreprise innovante soit en acquérant tout ou partie du capital de jeunes entreprises, soit en externalisant certaines entités du groupe pour en faire des entités indépendantes. Alors que le...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042536
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Innovation management in Russia’s foreign manufacturing subsidiaries: a pilot exploration of creation and implementation of effective innovation routines
Gurkov, Igor; Filippov, Sergey - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
Subsidiaries of foreign multinational companies are essential part of the modern Russian economy. In many sectors, they enjoy dominant positions. Innovation is an important driver and determinant of this dominance. Yet, little research has been done on innovation strategies and innovation...
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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The effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation in the home country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2013
offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392629
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Services outsourcing and innovation: an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2009
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277453
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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: Challenges to theory, management and geography of innovation
Massini, Silvia; Miozzo, Marcela - 2010
Drawing on an original survey, we discuss the trends and challenges posed by the outsourcing and offshoring of business … services. We document and analyse the increasing offshoring of business services (administrative services, call centres, IT … outsourcing decisions, globalisation of high value adding activities, such as product development and innovation, raising issues …
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