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This study examines the impact of decision-makers from Paraguayan software firms on internationalization. It aims to have a better understanding about the (non-) rational decision logic of the CEOs and founders shaping the internationalization processes of 45 Paraguayan software firms. This...
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Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to internationalize, even if that is the...
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Recent critiques of internationalization process models question the wisdom of delaying internationalization. Internationalizing late allows firms to assemble resources and gain experience but also allows inertia to develop. We resolve this tension by positing that internationalization has...
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The paper's main objective is to provide a concise synthesis of a wide array of data and research on multinationals originating in Statistics Canada, focusing on both historical and current studies. Chapter 2 discusses the macroeconomic contribution of foreign multinationals, focusing on two...
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In this study, we examine the location strategies (e.g., developing versus developed countries) of Chinese multinational firms (Pantzalis, 2001). We argue that domestic firm-specific ownership advantages of a firm, in the form of larger size and higher degree of diversification, will induce...
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globalists - the two main traditions within the globalization-regionalization debate. Second, we uncover an interesting de …
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This paper investigates how product and labour market regulations and red tape affect the way in which top corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide organise their cross-border operations. The decision about where a company locates its international subsidiaries is modelled...
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decisions, when the removal either of trade barriers or of restrictions on capital outflows/inflows (globalization) allows them … yields the relocation of the whole industry, autarchy is strictly better, in welfare terms, than globalization. It is only … when relocation is a dominant strategy for one (and only one) of the firms, that globalization may be unambiguously welfare …
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We construct a model in which oligopolistic firms decide where to locate. Firms choose to locate either in a country where employment protection implies costly output adjustments or in one without adjustment costs. Using a two-period three-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that...
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