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THE MULTINATIONAL FIRM

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986
Direct investment is incorporated into a simple general equilibrium model of international trade. The analysis focuses on an attempt to endogenize the internalization decision. It is argued that a reasonable approach assumes that arm's length contracts must be "simple" so that "complex" arrangements require internalization.
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Firms and Corruption

European Management Review, 2014
Corruption is not a new topic, but it has increasingly become a central policy issue around the world. Many countries, international organizations, business networks and firms have pursued anticorruption campaigns. Nonetheless, corruption persists. Although the (empirical) literature on corruption and (economic) performance at the country level has ...
de Jong, Gjalt, van Ees, Hans
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The Marketing Firm

Journal of Strategic Marketing, 1997
This part of the book undertakes a functional analysis of marketing, conceived as the intersecting activities of customers and marketers; i.e. it explores what marketing does. In the process of doing this, it defines the nature of the marketing firm.
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Sustainability and the Firm

Interfaces, 2000
Macroeconomic definitions of sustainability focus on the need to maintain aggregate stocks of natural and manufactured capital constant over time, so that future generations have consumption possibilities similar to those of the current generation. Similar tests can be applied at the firm level.
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The Representative Firm

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Marshall's idea of 'representative firm' was created to reconcile his dynamic view of individual firms with the static view of industries. But this idea was somewhat nebulous and did not last very long in the economics literature. Marshall first wrote about the representative firm in his "Principles of Economics" published in 1890 but the idea was ...
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The firm as a subeconomy

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1999
This article explores the economic role of the firm in a market economy. The analysis begins with a discussion and critique of the property rights approach to the theory of the firm as exposited in the recent work by Hart and Moore (“Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm”).
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The Flexible Firm

International Studies of Management & Organization, 1979
Abstract In this article an attempt is made at giving a more concrete meaning to the notion of flexibility of a firm. The relationship between the dynamics of the environment on the one hand and the chosen strategy and organizational structure of the firm on the other, will be further analysed The aiming at flexibility is considered to be a separate ...
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Firm debt structure and firm size [PDF]

open access: possible, 2009
The recent macro monetary policy debate over the existence of bank lending channels focuses on short-term bank borrowing versus short-term non-bank borrowing by firms. The approach is macro using aggregate manufacturing corporation data from the QFR of the US Census Bureau.
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Complicated firms

Journal of Financial Economics, 2010
We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece of information affects two sets of firms: one set of firms requires straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into prices. We document substantial return predictability from the set of easy-to-analyse
Cohen, Lauren, Lou, Dong
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Firm Migration

2002
Due to changes in markets, consumer preferences, environmental regulations, technological progress and so on, firms are constantly adjusting to new situations. This process very often also has a spatial dimension. Characteristics of the spatial environment of a firm may change over time, but internal changes in addition may lead to other locational ...
Pellenbarg, Pieter   +2 more
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