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The competitiveness and comparative advantage of U.S. multinationals 1957-1984
It has been shown that the share in world manufactured exports of firms located in the U.S. moved in the opposite direction of the share of U.S. multinational firms, including both their domestic and their overseas operations. The U.S.
R.E. LIPSEY, I.B. KRAVIS
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Dynamics of Catching Up: Exploring National, Sectoral, and Ownership Influences in Two Emerging Economy Firms [PDF]
Extant literature has extensively studied innovation-capability building in emerging economy firms (EEFs) from South Korea and China, but tends to neglect EEFs in somewhat less successful emerging economies, like Brazil and Turkey.
Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Christian Berggren
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Multinational Production and Intra-firm Trade
Intra-firm trade, from parents to affiliates, has been combined with standard models of multinational production (MP) to deliver gravity-style predictions for foreign affiliates' sales. Nonetheless, the evidence shows that intra-firm trade is concentrated among a small set of large multinational firms.
Vanessa Alviarez, Ayhab F. Saad
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Location choice of Spanish multinational firms in developing and transition economies
In this paper, we use firm-level data to investigate how different host country characteristics affect the decision of Spanish multinational firms to locate in developing and transition countries, and whether these determinants change when looking at ...
Josep Martí +2 more
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The institutional environment has a significant impact on the location of overseas investments by multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, there remain two research gaps.
Huiyun Shen +3 more
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Multinational Firms and The New Trade Theory [PDF]
Abstract A model is constructed in which multinational firms arise endogenously. Multinationals are more important in total activity when countries are similar in incomes (size) and in relative factor endowments, and when total world income is high.
James R. Markusen, Anthony J. Venables
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The Organization of Knowledge in Multinational Firms [PDF]
This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. In the theory, knowledge is a costly input for firms that they can acquire at their headquarters or their production plants. Communication costs impede the access of the plants to headquarter knowledge.
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Exporting is a central growth strategy for most firms and managers with international experience are instrumental for export decisions. We suggest that such managers can be hired from Multinational Corporations (MNCs).
Pedro de Faria +2 more
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Optimal Integration Strategies for the Multinational Firm [PDF]
We examine integration strategies of multinational firms that face a rich array of choices of international organization. Each firm in an industry must provide headquarter services from its home country, produce intermediate inputs, and assemble the intermediate goods into final products.
Grossman, Gene +2 more
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The Multinational Firm and the Determinants of Investment [PDF]
In 1970 fixed investment spending of U.S. foreign affiliates reached 20 percent of the domestic total for manufacturing and 16 percent for all industry. For specific industries the 1970 figures are even more dramatic: chemicals, 38 percent; transportation equipment, 45 percent.
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