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Corporate values in local contexts : work systems and workers' welfare in Western and Eastern Europe
Kahancová, Marta - 2007
work practices, namely work systems and fringe benefits, in a Dutch multinational company (MNC) and its manufacturing … der Basis von Analysen der Produktions- und Arbeitsbedingungen und der vom Unternehmen gewährten freiwilligen … Zusatzleistungen in einem niederländischen multinationalen Unternehmen mit Niederlassungen in West- und Osteuropa beantwortet werden …
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Corporate values in local contexts : work systems and workers' welfare in Western and Eastern Europe
Kahancová, Marta - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003473958
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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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Sectoral determinants of foreign affiliate sales
Bekkers, Eddy; Macskasi, Indre - 2015
We test recent theories on sectoral determinants of foreign affiliate sales employing European foreign affiliate sales statistics (FATS). On the one hand, we test hypotheses by Oldenski (2012) that foreign affiliate sales are less likely in sectors with complex tasks and more likely in sectors...
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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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Exporting pollution
Ben-David, Itzhak; Kleimeier, Stefanie; Viehs, Michael - 2018
Despite widespread awareness of the detrimental impact of CO2 pollution on the world climate, countries vary widely in how they design and enforce environmental laws. Using novel microdata about multinational firms’ CO2 emissions across countries, we document that firms headquartered in...
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International product fragmentation and the insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks : Colombian case studies
Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Uribe, Maria José - 2012
Understanding the drivers of international production fragmentation is an important issue for Latin American and Caribbean countries because participation in global production networks can help mitigate instability due to dependence on natural resources and can provide opportunities for further...
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Multinational production and "soft" industrial policies
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2020 - This version: January 2020
Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial policies to influence the geography of this production. In this paper, we focus on a ubiquitous “soft” industrial policy that aims at reducing information barriers -...
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