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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment [PDF]

open access: yes
Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S.
Robert E. Lipsey
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Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

Multinationals in the blue economy: Navigating through Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesRAN
Purpose: to identify which SDGs have been addressed by the main multinational companies of the blue economy. Methodology: the annual reports of 41 multinationals that carry out activities in the oceans were reviewed.
José Satsumi López-Morales   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tough Love: Do Czech Suppliers Learn from Their Relationships with Multinationals? [PDF]

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Many countries strive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) hoping that knowledge brought by multinationals will spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity.
Beata S. Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu
core   +1 more source

International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical Discourse on Accounting Conservatism and Financial Performance of Multinational Companies in Nigeria

open access: yesAccounting and Management Research
This study aims at finding out how accounting conservatism influences the financial performance of multinational companies (MNCs) in Nigeria. In particular, it investigates the impact of unconditional and conditional conservatism on the return on equity (
Akan David Chucks, Temile Suny Oteteya
doaj   +1 more source

Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms [PDF]

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Recent theoretical work tends to characterize multinational enterprises as arising through either horizontal or vertical foreign direct investment (FDI). Empirical research tends to find stronger support for the former than for the latter. In this paper,
Gordon H. Hanson   +2 more
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Operationalising global education in teacher education and training: A model for contextualising terminology

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Importing career opportunities: how foreign multinationals drive female leadership in Mexico

open access: yesCogent Business & Management
Drawing on institutional theory, this study examines the extent to which foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) contribute to women’s representation in top management teams (TMTs) in Mexico. The empirical analysis is based on a dataset constructed from
Andreas M. Hartmann   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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