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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Correlation between Sales of Foreign Affiliates and Productivity of Multinational Firms: Evidence from Korean Firm-Level Data

East Asian Economic Review, 2013
Using firm-level panel data for Korean multinational enterprises (MNEs), we make a distinction between being the only affiliate of a parent firm and being one of the multiple affiliates of a parent firm.
Jung Hur , Jiwon Lee , Hea-Jung Hyun
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Foreign Firms and Indigenous Technology Development in the People's Republic of China [PDF]

Asian Development Review, 2013
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is currently promoting indigenous technology development through support of Chinese firms and, arguably, by restricting operations of foreign multinational firms.
Fredrik Sjöholm, Nannan Lundin
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Firm growth in multinational corporate groups [PDF]

Empirical Economics, 2012
This paper formulates an econometric firm growth model that explicitly accounts for the interdependence of firm performance within corporate networks and is in line with several economic theories on firm growth. We test the model for national and multinational corporate groups using a recently introduced instrumental variable estimation procedure for ...
Oberhofer, Harald, Pfaffermayr, Michael
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Leadership and Sustainability in a Globalized World: Emerging Trends, Global Contexts, Key Challenges, and Effective Strategies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic review analyzes 109 studies from top business journals, exploring the connection between leadership and sustainability, including key leadership styles, emerging trends, and challenges in integrating sustainability into organizational strategies and operations.
Muzhar Javed, Bilal. Bilal, Nacef Mouri, Muhammad Faisal   +3 more
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Knowledge capital and innovation management: Impact of transboundary investment and assimilative capacity

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
Background: In today’s volatile and highly competitive business environment, the importance of knowledge capital and innovation management for multinational manufacturing firms has been widely recognised by both academia and industry.
Suleman Bawa, Xie Yongping
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International outsourcing over the business cycle: some intuition for Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia [PDF]

Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2010
In this paper, we assess the extent to which multinational firms – in the first instance, the German ones – may adjust their international outsourcing over the business cycle in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Sandrine LEVASSEUR
doaj  

The Intangible Assets of Korean Manufacturing Firms for Foreign Direct Investment

East Asian Economic Review, 2004
This paper attempts to apply the intangible assets approach to the emerging multinational enterprises of Korea. More specifically, it tries to empirically analyze whether Korean firms investing in foreign markets possess more advanced intangible assets ...
Sunghoon Hong
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Capital structure of foreign affiliates and the investment decision: two questions to consider

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2013
This paper analyses the ownership structure of foreign affiliates of Spanish firms. In contrast to previous studies on the participation degree, the paper highlights the importance of the previous decision to invest abroad. To do so, an econometric model
Fernando Merino
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Location decision of heterogeneous multinational firms [PDF]

Journal of International Economics, 2010
Abstract We examine how multinational firms with heterogeneous total factor productivity (TFP) self-select into different host countries. Both aggregate- and firm-level estimates suggest that more productive French firms are more likely than their less efficient competitors to invest in relatively tough host countries. Countries with a smaller market
Maggie Xiaoyang Chen, Michael Owen Moore
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