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, it shows how free-riding behavior and process spillovers can mutually promote dynamic competition at the industry level … the source of intra-industry spillover. The main results show that the innovation strategies of the two firms can be …
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knowledge spillovers are not the main driver of innovation in business groups because firms affiliated with the same group do …Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation … several hypotheses to explain this finding, focusing on group internal capital markets and knowledge spillovers. We find that …
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account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on innovation …. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more in innovation and are …
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This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to … discrete choice models. The empirical exercise provides evidence on the positive link between spillovers and the innovative … spillovers. This ability not only works through firms’ R&D capabilities, but also through such factors as the quality of the …
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damages of which are not accounted for by the firm, and the second concerns knowledge spillovers, which increase the social … return to innovation above the private return. We show that when firms can reduce emissions separately through both output … and abatement, the existence of knowledge spillovers implies that a single tax on emissions is no longer capable of …
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This report reviews recent global efforts to privatize energy resources and outlines the opportunities and challenges privatization has presented to U.S. and foreign multinational energy companies. The group of energy companies studied in this report includes the major U.S. petroleum companies...
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For many firms, there is no long term effective strategy except to continue to grow and evolve through innovation … foreign markets, affiliates are now often involved in innovation activities themselves.Establishing innovation mandates within … capabilities, it must identify and diffuse superior practices throughout the innovation network.Case study methodology is used to …
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This dissertation studies the relationship between firm ownership and firm performanceas measured by firm productivity and profitability. Given the vast dispersion in owner andfirm characteristics, changes in ownership have the potential to translate into differences infirm performance. Chapter...
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This paper analyzes the demand for labor by home multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Europe. To this end we use a unique firm level panel data set of more than 1,200 European multinational enterprises and their subsidiaries that are located in either the European Union, Central and Eastern...
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How should multinational enterprises (MNEs) select international markets? We develop a model of international market selection that adds firm-specific advantages and transaction cost considerations to previously explored target market factors based on Dunning's Eclectic Framework. Results...
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