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Choosing between foreign investment and subcontracting : strategies of Italian firms in Romania

Tattara, Giuseppe - In: The evolution of economic theory : essays in honour of …, (pp. 197-214). 2011

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The impact of multinational companies from Romania on increasing the level of corporate social responsibility awareness

Dura, Codruţa; Drigă, Imola - In: Contemporary economics 11 (2017) 1, pp. 45-66

. Our paper aims to provide a presentation of social responsibility in Romania, based on public reports of multinational …/actions undertaken by MNCs from Romania, and high priority domains of society that benefit from the support of MNCs. A general image of … the stage of CSR development in Romania was captured by a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis …

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Regional FDI spillovers and local suppliers : disentangling the effects of foreign ownership, technology gap and absorptive capacity

Jordaan, Jacob A. - 2012

In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver of regional growth, by acting as a source of new knowledge and technologies to local suppliers in a host economy. For the analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained...

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Power Relationships Along the Value Chain : Multinational Firms, Global Buyers and Performance of Local Suppliers

Pietrobelli, Carlo; Saliola, Federica - 2010

There is a growing literature exploring the role of international trade channels on economic growth, looking at the mechanisms through which import and export flows might affect productivity, technology diffusion and output growth. However, most of this literature appears to neglect an important...

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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty

Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 2021

I analyse firms organisational choices when they face uncertainty about institutional conditions in foreign locations with heterogeneous final good producers and incomplete contracts. As firms learn about the conditions abroad, the increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the...

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Do multinational enterprises push up the wages of domestic firms in the Italian manufacturing sector?

Pittiglio, Rosanna; Reganati, Filippo; Sica, Edgardo - 2012

The present paper aims to test the impact of incoming Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on local wages in the Italian manufacturing sector by using firm level data from 2002 to 2007. Results initially show the lack of wage spillovers at both horizontal and vertical level, meaning that the effects...

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FDI and corporate geography in the home country

Cappariello, Rita; Federico, Stefano; Zizza, Roberta - 2010

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the home-country effects of FDI. Instead of comparing FDI firms to non-FDI firms, we look at what happens within multi-plant FDI firms and we compare headquarters to onheadquarter plants belonging to the same firm. Using survey data on...

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There's no place like home : the profitability gap between headquarters and their foreign subsidiaries

Dischinger, Matthias; Riedel, Nadine - 2009

Using a large panel data set for European firms, this paper provides evidence that operations at multinational headquarters are significantly more profitable than perations at their foreign subsidiaries. The effect turns out to be robust and quantitatively large. Our findings suggest that the...

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Assets or Liabilities of Foreignness? On the Role of TNCs in International Business

Freiling, Jörg - 2012

Cross‐border activities of firms are said to be risky and complicated due to so‐called ‘liabilities of foreignness' (LOF) (Zaheer & Mosakowski 1997; Zaheer 1995). These LOF are difficulties firms in general have to face when acting in environments they are not familiar with. The existence of...

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Foreign Sourcing and Technology Transfer under Asymmetric Information

Bolatto, Stefano - 2020

Although outsourcing vs. vertical integration is generally treated as a binary choice in international trade literature, firm-level data reveal that inputs can be imported both within and across firms' boundaries, even within narrowly defined industries from the same host country. This paper...

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