Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), as generally understood, is related to capital flows, from developed countries to the developing countries. When the flow is from developing countries to advanced economies, the phenomenon is called outward FDI or Reverse FDI. This paper identifies an additional...

In the U.S., companies entered into more than 67,000 strategic alliances in the 1996-2003 time period. We investigate the impact of the announcement of alliances by U.S. firms using the Fama-French model. We find firms engaging in technology alliances are likely to be smaller in size and have...

Family business in the changing Latin American environment -- Ownership structure differences in Latin America family businesses -- Strategy and entrepreneurship -- Family dynamics -- Organization performance -- Internationalization of family firms

The globalization of the value chain puts older regional clusters characterized by local, vertical value chains across multiple connected sectors, at a significant risk. Firms operating within the local regional clusters need to develop new generic strategies and new bases of competitive...