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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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The Multinational Firm

Annual Review of Economics, 2013
This article documents the recent advances in the international trade literature toward understanding the role of multinational firms in the conduct of international commerce. Over the past 10 years, we have developed a better understanding of the incentives firms face in their choice of production location, and we know more about the incentives that ...
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Indian Multinational Firms

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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Simulating heterogeneous multinational firms [PDF]

open access: possible, 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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Multinational Firms and Global Innovation

SSRN Electronic Journal
This 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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Multinational Firms, Innovation and Productivity

2006
This 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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Downsizing the multinational firm

Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 1995
Major 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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Multinational firms and new protectionisms [PDF]

open access: possible, 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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Indian multinationals, foreign multinationals and domestic firms

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2009
Empirical evidence suggests that multinationals exhibit greater productivity than local firms. Emergence of Indian multinationals in the last decade raises an interesting question. Do Indian multinationals have greater productivity than foreign multinationals in India?
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ORGANISING THE MULTINATIONAL FIRM

Management Decision, 1971
The 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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