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The case study of United States shows that global economic processes significantly influence the location of manufacturing. Analysis of multidimensional data covering 1860-2010 shows several stylized facts. Intensity of U.S. involvement in global economy by set of indicators is characterized by...
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Internationalization, as both import and export, represents spreading of business activity beyond the local (country) market, allowing small and medium sized enterprise to compete in domestic and foreign markets by lowering costs through accessing new suppliers, and/or by increasing revenue due...
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Internationalisation plays a key role in the strategy of many firms, with one of the key benefits being improved … performance. Since the early 1990s, internationalisation has played a central role within the mobile telecommunications industry … internationalisation that has occurred within the European mobile telecommunications industry has resulted in the improved performance of …
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The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of plants in Germany and, if so, in which direction....
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Industries have varying abilities to benefit from externalities associated with geographical concentration, and are also likely to suffer in different degrees from crowding costs. This makes industries differ in their concentration process. We hypothesize that firms with low education levels...
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During the last decade, there has been wide agreement on the importance of dynamic capabilities on economic performance of firms. Simultaneously an increasing literature suggests that economic dynamics is embedded in social relations and social institutions. In this article, the determinants of...
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