The paper aims at extending the analysis of the firm’s absorptive capacity (AC) by taking stock of its manifold nature. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending on the kind of partner. Human capital is...

The attraction of foreign MNEs have been seen mainly from the point of view of the effects related directly to productivity of local firms. Instead a new strand of literature has deepened the issue focusing on the export behaviour of local firms, claiming that FDI may have an impact on exports,...

This paper aims at examining the role played by inward Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in affecting the exit probabilities of German manufacturing firms in the precrisis year 2007. We introduce two main novelties: in the first place, we include the FDI variable, dividing it between types of...