This study assesses the importance of group membershipforimmigrant entrepreneurs in the lodging industry in Texas. It arguesthat such affiliation, and proximity, offers critical resources for strugglingmembers, thus improving chances of firmsurvival. Severalhypotheses—assuming that survival...

A key strategic choice for multinational firms is where to locate. When investing abroad, firms may find collocating with their own and competitors' prior investments beneficial. Such agglomeration may provide knowledge and infrastructure spillovers. Yet, as a firm invests sequentially, its past...

Several studies find that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) raises host industries' competition and productivity using aggregate FDI measures: the monetary flows or the change in the industries' foreign production share. Yet FDI flows are composed of many individual, heterogeneous...

Several studies find that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) raises host industries' competition and productivity using aggregate FDI measures: the monetary flows or the change in the industries' foreign production share. Yet FDI flows are composed of many individual, heterogeneous...

Firms have different motives for investing abroad, most notably to exercise existing capabilities, but also to build new capabilities by accessing knowledge located abroad. Recognizing this heterogeneity helps determine whether foreign investments transfer technology to their host industries....

The individual states within the United States offer numerous incentives to entice international investment even though the effectiveness of doing so is unclear. Examining their effectiveness, we find that coastal states that offer more incentives do receive a greater annual share of foreign...

Recent research finds that firms investing abroad tend to agglomerate with other foreign entrants. Yet firms often invest multiple times within the same host country, which raises the question of whether firms agglomerate with their competitors' or their own prior investments. Collocation's...

Although several studies have shown that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) often leads to greater host country productivity, researchers have yet to determine the relative importance of direct technology transfer and competitive pressure. To assess the relative importance of the two...

Firms have different motives for investing abroad, most notably to exercise existing capabilities, but also to build new capabilities by accessing knowledge located abroad. Recognizing this heterogeneity helps determine whether foreign investments transfer technology to their host industries....