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Derramas Tecnológicas Inversas y Desempeño Innovador: El Caso de las Empresas Transnacionales Mexicanas, 1994-2015

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, 2019
The expansion of transnational corporations from emerging economies during the last decades has generated a great interest among scholars in analyzing the presence of reverse technology spillovers. This kind of spillovers are generated when transnational
Alejandra Lara-Francisco, Mario Gómez, José Carlos Rodríguez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cross‐Sectoral AI Integration Is Essential to Tackling Food Waste and Food Insecurity: A Roadmap for Developing Resilient Food Systems

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad, Hannah Mann, Lubna Najm, Shadman Khan, Carlos D. M. Filipe, Tohid F. Didar   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Requisite Skill Availability and Multinational Corporations Locational Strategies in Nigeria

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2019
Research Background: Unemployment has been a major inhibitor of growth and development in Nigeria and it has been a perpetual problem that has proven insurmountable despite various governmental administration interventions and commercial policies to ...
Akinbola Olufemi Amos, Kowo Solomon Akpoviroro, Ojo Olugbenga Abiola   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

1. Multinational corporations and local firms in emerging economies

, 2011
In order for foreign direct investment to have deep and lasting positive effects on host countries, it is essential that multinational corporations have close direct and indirect interaction with local firms.
Eric Rugraff, Rugraff, Eric, Michael W. Hansen, Hansen, Michael W.(Michael Wendelboe)   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Multinational Corporations [PDF]

Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 1977
The importance of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the world trade, foreign direct investment, and transfer of technology is well documented. In recent year, many governments, especially those in the Third World, have been re-examining their policies towards MNCs whose economic and political power often come in the way of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
wiley   +1 more source

Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki, Francisca N. Muteti, Annemie Maertens, Michael Ndegwa, Hope Michelson, Mercy Mbugua, Jason Donovan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does purchasing stock in Australian multinational corporations create international portfolio diversification? [PDF]

, 2002
While Australia leads the United States in direct stock ownership by private individuals, Australian investors perceive foreign shares as risky and question if the benefits of international portfolio diversification can be achieved by purchasing shares ...
McCarthy, Scott, Wright, April
core   +1 more source

The Right to Development Obligation of Multinational Corporations in Local Community Development: A Focus on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Turf Law Journal
This article examines the right to development obligation of multinational corporations involved in local community development, with a particular focus on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). Most of the LHWP’s construction work is undertaken by
Tankiso Motipi, Carol Chi Ngang
doaj   +1 more source