&A). Recently, scholars have recommended studying the effect on ownership entry mode of the quality of the target country's overall … relationship suggests that ownership strategy will change depending on whether the corruption is low, moderate or high. Moreover … controlling for a wide range of both firm (status, industrial sector, past experience, and ownership structure) and country …

(MNEs). We claim that the location of the target firm influences the choice of partial ownership, i.e., an MNE's choice to …

This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German … states, Prussia granted patents more restrictively by setting higher novelty requirements. Though, patent fees were much …