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Corporate values in local contexts : work systems and workers' welfare in Western and Eastern Europe

Kahancová, Marta - 2007

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Corporate values in local contexts : work systems and workers' welfare in Western and Eastern Europe

Kahancová, Marta - 2007

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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2009

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s competitive environment and the influence of...

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Outsourcing motives, location choice and labour market implications : an empirical analysis for European countries

Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to assess the labour market repercussions at home. Employing Tobit models we differentiate between job losses as well as job creation for high and low skilled employees at the...

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The organization of European multinationals

Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda - 2011

Recent literature on international trade has established that the most productive firms become multinationals. But our data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of the same European multinational parent firms suggesting...

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International production and wage coordination in an integrated economy (revised)

Buccella, Domenico - 2011

Key aspects in economic integrated areas like the EU are both the internationalization of productive activities, which usually occurs in unionized countries, and the ongoing process of labor market integration. In a symmetric two-country duopoly model with integrated product markets, this paper...

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Trade and the internationalization of production

Kleinert, Jörn - 2002

Whereas many empirical studies show that the internationalization of production is driven by falling distance costs, theoretical models of the endogenous emergence of multinational enterprises predict the opposite. This paper argues that this dichotomy can be resolved if the production process...

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Dissecting global value chains : evidence from the global automotive industry

Bisztray, Márta - 2021

The potential restructuring of global value chains (GVCs) is a widely discussed question in current debates. At the same time, a proper way of capturing these value chains is challenging. This paper focuses on the automotive industry, using detailed data on firm-to-firm transactions in Hungary,...

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Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie : neue Standorte auf dem Vormarsch, traditionelle Anbieter unter Druck?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2000

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Subsidizing away exports? : a note on R&D-policy towards multinational firms

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2010

In this paper, I investigate whether instead of strengthening home-based production, government R&D-subsidies can induce R&D-intensive firms to locate production abroad. Investigating firm-level data on Swedish MNEs, however, I find no evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en...

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