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A selective review of foreign direct investment theories
Nayak, Dinkar; Choudhury, Rahul - 2014
Several theories have been put forward by the researchers to explain foreign direct investment. However, no single theory fits the different types of direct investment or the investment made by a particular multinational corporation or country in any region. This paper traces the evolution of...
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Deutschland nach wie vor ein attraktiver Forschungsstandort für multinationale Unternehmen
Belitz, Heike - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 81 (2014) 12, pp. 251-260
Deutsche Konzerne wie Volkswagen, Daimler, Bosch und Siemens gehören zu den forschungsstärksten der Welt. Trotz gestiegener Aufwendungen für Forschung und Entwicklung im Ausland verliert der Heimatstandort für diese Unternehmen nicht an Bedeutung. Ausländische Unternehmen tragen in...
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Under cover : detecting the existence of profit-shifting in China
Xuefeng, Qian; Tian, Bifei; Reed, W. Robert; Chen, Ziruo - 2017
This paper investigates profit-shifting behaviour among a large sample of multinational corporations (MNCs) in China …&W) in their seminal analysis of tax elasticity of German MNCs. They developed a two-component mixture model that categorized … MNCs into tax "avoiders" and "non-avoiders" based upon the estimated elasticities of investment to taxes. The authors of …
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Chinese regional inequality and sectoral foreign direct investment
Azarhoushang, Behzad; Wu, Jennifer Pédussel; Zaroki, … - 2019
Following the 1978 economic reforms, China gradually became first amongst developing countries and the second in the world, after the USA, in terms of stock of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Sustained GDP growth, a high rate of capital return and brisk economic development made China...
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Scenario planning as approach to improve the strategic performance of multinational corporations (MNCs)
Abuzaid, Ahmad Nasser - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 19 (2018), pp. 195-207
The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between scenario planning and strategic performance. The data was collected from 121 Multinational corporations operating in Jordan by using a questionnaire. Pearson correlation and the partial least squares (PLS) methodology for...
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The determinants of the outward foreign direct investment of China and India: Whither the home country?
Tolentino, Paz Estrella - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
The current study examines the relationships between several home country-specific macroeconomic factors and the level of the outward FDI of China and India using multiple time-series data from 1982 to 2006 and from 1980 to 2006, respectively. With the use of a vector autoregressive model...
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Why stay-at-home investing makes sense
O'Hagan-Luff, Martha; Berrill, Jenny - In: International Review of Financial Analysis 38 (2015) C, pp. 1-14
Despite the benefits of international diversification investors continue to display a preference for home based investments. Given this preference we investigate whether it is possible to mimic the benefits of international diversification via domestically traded products. We test this from the...
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MNCs’ HRM Strategy and Country of Origin Effect: Do North American, European and Japanese Firms Really Differ?
Yu, Gyu-Chang; Park, Woo-Sung; Cho, Yung-Ho - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 18 (2007) 4, pp. 392-409
Based upon the sample of 419 MNCs’ subsidiaries in Korea, we examined the country of origin effect in the choice of … MNCs’ HRM strategy: transplantation, localization, and mixed. A multinominal logit regression analysis showed that there is … MNCS tended to implement mixed strategy, while Japanese MNCs tended to adopt localization strategy. European MNCs were in …
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The determinants of the outward foreign direct investment of China and India: Whither the home country?
Tolentino, Paz Estrella - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
The current study examines the relationships between several home country-specific macroeconomic factors and the level of the outward FDI of China and India using multiple time-series data from 1982 to 2006 and from 1980 to 2006, respectively. With the use of a vector autoregressive model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795831
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Deutschland nach den USA zweitgrößter Forschungsstandort für multinationale Unternehmen
Belitz, Heike - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 18, pp. 226-232
In der zweiten Hälfte der 90er Jahre sind die Aufwendungen deutscher multinationaler Unternehmen für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) im Ausland stärker gestiegen als im Inland. In gleichem Maße steigerten ausländische Unternehmen ihre FuE-Aufwendungen in Deutschland, so dass die Bilanz...
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