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Multinational Firms and Global Innovation
SSRN Electronic JournalThis paper provides an integrated analysis of multinational companies' global production and innovation. We establish novel stylized facts using rich data on the network of production affiliates and patent activity of German multinationals. We rationalize these facts with a heterogeneous-firm model, in which companies jointly determine the location and
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Simulating heterogeneous multinational firms [PDF]
, 2011 This paper develops a micro-simulation framework for multinational entry and sales activities across countries. The model is based on Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz's (2010) quantitative trade model adapted towards multinational production. Using micro data on Japanese manufacturing firms, we first stylize the empirical regularities of multinational entry ...
Shawn ARITA, TANAKA Kiyoyasu
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The Multinational Firm and Exhaustible Resources
Economica, 1986A multinational firm trading in exhaustible resources is examined. The exhaustibility of the transferred good requires the generalization of some existing concepts and introduces some new results. The optimal extraction strategy is examined, and comparative static implications of government policies are established. The performance of the multinational
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Theories of the multinational firm: A microfoundational perspective
Global Strategy Journal, 2018Research SummaryWe analyze the six core international business (IB) strategy frameworks highlighted by Forsgren (2013) to identify the explicit or implicit microfoundations embedded therein. We start from two, broad microfoundations, namely bounded rationality and bounded reliability, covering a total of ten microfoundational facets, recently put ...
Kano, Liena, Verbeke, Alain
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Multinational Firms, Innovation and Productivity
2006This book develops a view of multinational firms as heterogeneous institutions that combine internal networks of subsidiaries with external networks of collaborative linkages, and connect geographically separate innovation systems. By so doing multinationals are affected by, and contribute to, the technological evolution of contexts in which they are ...
CASTELLANI, Davide, Zanfei A.
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Multinational firms and new protectionisms [PDF]
, 2007 Recent initiatives to hold back cross-border mergers and acquisitions for 'strategic' reasons have made headline news. We discuss whether the initiatives may mark the start of a new protectionist era. We argue that standard globalization indicators show no such signs.
Claudia M. Buch, Jörn Kleinert
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Downsizing the multinational firm
Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 1995Major downsizing efforts are now taking place in multinational business firms in virtually every corner of the world, despite the economic recovery that seems to be occurring in many countries. Those multinational firms that have been turned around most effectively through downsizing activities have based their decision making on a foundation of ...
John Darling, Raimo Nurmi
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2020
An important phenomena in recent years is the entry of emerging economy multinational firms on the global stage with important implications on the structure. These countries are China, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, and India. In the Post-reforms era domestic market has become very competitive, driving Indian companies to acquire world class standards
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An important phenomena in recent years is the entry of emerging economy multinational firms on the global stage with important implications on the structure. These countries are China, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, and India. In the Post-reforms era domestic market has become very competitive, driving Indian companies to acquire world class standards
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ORGANISING THE MULTINATIONAL FIRM
Management Decision, 1971The International Business Unit is part of the Department of Management Sciences in the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. It grew out of a research programme which started eight years ago, and has been undertaken in collaboration with the European Institute of Business Administration at Fontainebleau.
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The Multinational Firm and the Future
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1972For the next two decades we see multinational corporate activity as a leading system in what we call the "global industrial system." But a transformation process of the multinational corporate phenomenon is underway and should accelerate in the 1990s. Causes for this transformation include: (1) the appearance of coalitions between firms in rich, poor ...
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