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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Multinational firms"”.
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Building and sustaining effective relational contracts in multinational firms
… understanding, suggestions are made as to how firms can increase competitive advantage by building and sustaining better relational contracts in their organizations.
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Knowledge transfer : a critical strategic asset in multinational firms : a corporate view
… of Knowledge Integration in a single multinational firm. Knowledge Integration is a concept that includes innovation, transfer and transformation of knowledge and much recent literature suggests that it is a key to competitive succcess, especia!!y within multinational organizations. …
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Border-crossing knowledge networking among multinational firms : the case of R&D facilities
(cont.) which is expected, given their additional knowledge resources. The respondents' urgency in looking for the relevant knowledge is the primary explanation for this difference between the two networks. This difference in knowledge networking among the different groups did not result in more …
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Multinational Firms' Ownership Structure Choices in Politically Risky Countries: An Integrative Strategic Management Approach
The predictions developed in this dissertation of greater utilization of wholly-owned subsidiaries were corroborated when there was: (a) higher advertising intensity as a measure of higher intangible assets; and (b) lower political risk as measure by two distinct constructs. However, predictions of …
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Modeling the Bargaining Game Between Multinational Firms and Britain's Office of Fair Trading: An Exploratory Analysis
… intrusiveness of inquiries for both the target firms and the government lead to expectations that bargaining is preferred. Case histories of OFT and MMC decisions are reconstructed in order to determine why a negotiated settlement was or was not reached early on. These case histories of specific …
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Modeling the Bargaining Game Between Multinational Firms and Britain's Office of Fair Trading: An Exploratory Analysis
This non-normative investigation looks at how expectations regarding consistency, predictability, and transparency are formed by corporate managers and government officials within a highly discretionary system of regulation. Interactions between companies (foreign and domestic) and Britain's Office …
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Foreign exchange risk exposure of Canadian domestic, exporting and multinational firms : market and industry effects on bilateral and multilateral exchange rates
… show no significant exposure of the domestic firms sample, suggesting indirect exposure may be limited. However significant exposure effects are found for the exporting sample. In general, these results do not suggest that there are any benefits from using the more (theoretically) appealing …
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Essays in development and environmental economics
… Chapter 1 measures the response of U.S. based multinational firms to the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA), which dramatically strengthened U.S. environmental regulation. Using a panel of firm-level data over the period 1966-1999, I estimate the effect of regulation on a multinational's foreign …
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The Impact of Globalization on Inventory and Financial Performance: A Firm-Level and Industry-Level Analysis
… and financial performance, using data from multinational firms and U.S. manufacturing industries. Motivated by the lack of empirical research on inventory management in a global context, and an uncertain relationship between globalization and financial performance reported in the …
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The internationalisation process of firms form a developing country : empirical study of Malaysian-based multinational corporations
… the emergence and evolution of Malaysian-based firms and identify the factors that influence the organisation's international expansion process. This study reviews different streams of literature on the internationalisation process of firms and developing country multinational enterprises, …
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Globalisation, value chains and firm-level catch-up in developing countries : the cases of Boeing, Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola in China
… aims to contribute to the empirical work on multinational firms in relation to economic development and seeks to build a deeper understanding of the ways in which developing countries are integrated into the global economy. General observations of the three value chains include: 1) the …
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Global demand transparency in the ABB supply chain
… to provide a solution to a problem facing many multinational firms: the lack of an accessible and comprehensive database for up-to-date component part forecasts. We consider this problem in the context of ABB BU DMPE. After considering various requirements and constraints regarding the …
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Essays in development economics and finance
… connected companies. I identify two types of firms: companies owned by friends and relatives of the impeached president ('family-connected') and firms proven to be connected to him in a parliamentary investigation ('other-connected'). Using an event study procedure, I establish that …
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IT investments and firm performance across economies
… firm performance. But the results vary across firms and performance measures. Evidence indicates that IT resource allocations, in the form of investment in specific IT asset classes and IT capabilities of the firm, may play an important role in explaining the variations. A monolithic view of …
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Dynamic analysis of an open economy and foreign exchange risk management using path-dependent options
… for all economies but poses short-run risks for firms operating in international arenas. Recession, inflation, interest rates and exchange rates in a foreign nation impact multinational firms with business interests in that nation, and ultimately affect the domestic economies of such firms. For …
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Ownership, Control, and Performance of International Joint Ventures: The Case of the People's Republic of China
… theory and bargaining power theory to explain multinational firms' choice between whole and joint ownership in foreign subsidiaries. In this thesis we propose an integrated conceptual framework of international equity joint ventures drawing upon a synthesis and extension of transaction costs …
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Effects of the foreign direct investments program on the U. S. balance of payments
… the Office of Foreign Direct investments by U.S. multinational firms. With these, estimates of earnings and exports associated with direct investments were made. The reduction in the level of direct investment itself was estimated, using a flexible accelerator model. Finally, the amount of foreign …
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INCOME SHIFTING AMONG OPTION INTENSIVE FIRMS IN THE 1990'S
<p>One way a multinational corporation can further satisfy its primary objective, which is to maximize shareholder wealth, is to minimize the share of its income that is transferred through taxation to the various sovereign nations within which it does business. The profit maximizing firm attempts …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Productivity
… acts as a bridge linking technology transfer to firms' adaptation activities, which enable developing countries to catch-up with developed countries. We empirically test the main predictions of our theoretical model and we find positive and statistically significant effects of FDI on the relative …
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