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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"multinational firm"”.
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Reentry of the expatriate into the multinational firm
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1981
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Managing innovation development across borders in the multinational firm : the role and effectiveness of coordinating units
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2000.
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Foreign direct investment in the United States: The effects of multinational firm characteristics and local factors on the location decision
Much research has been generally done on the U.S. multinational corporation (MNC) and its foreign direct investment (FDI). Recently, the focus has shifted to foreign MNCs and their investments in the U.S. As the significance and magnitude of FDI have increased in the 80s, researchers have primarily …
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The geographic sources of innovation in the multinational enterprise : U.S. subsidiaries and host country spillovers, 1980-1990
This dissertation is about multinational firms and the geography of technological innovation. It addresses a series of questions about the spatial location of the knowledge sources that underpin and inform innovations developed by foreign subsidiaries. Where foreign subsidiaries draw their …
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Welfare Effects Of Industrial Policies Under Asymmetric Oligopoly And Endogenous Quality
… investigates the impact that a duopoly of a multinational firm and local firm has on a closed economy as they engage in Bertrand competition involving quality and price. It answers the question: Does helping a minor firm reduce welfare? Using a different framework than the existing …
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Competing for Foreign Direct Investment Through Investment in Public Infrastructure
… direct investment (FDI). We model a monopolistic multinational firm that wants to establish its production plant in one of two prospective host countries with segmented markets, hence there is no arbitrage between the markets. Preceding the firm's location decision, the government of one of the …
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Essays on foreign direct investment and growth in the United States
… the United States. In 1997, foreign controlled firms accounted for 6.3 percent of US GDP, 4.9 percent of non-bank employment, 20 percent of US exports of goods, 30 percent of US imports of goods, and 12 percent of firm R&D. However, due to data limitations, previous research has examined the …
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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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Coaching as a social exchange : examining the role of coaching in talent management
… and leadership development programmes in a multinational financial services organisation. Coaching is often regarded as a core element of these programmes, and yet there have been few attempts to examine coaching within this specific organisational context and its contribution to the …
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Essays on Global Sourcing under Uncertainty
… demand uncertainty on sourcing decisions of a multinational firm which engages in global sourcing through capacity reservation contracts. The focus of this essay is cost, which is known to be the main driver of global sourcing practices. We investigate the impact of cost uncertainty caused by …
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Empirical Essays on Gender in Organizations
… restricted-access administrative data on firms and their employees to data on acquisition deals, and a second one built during a year-long field study conducted at the headquarters of a multinational firm. In the first essay, I investigate the role of national culture on organizational …
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Integrating Systems, Processes, and Human Judgment: Three Essays on Value Creation with Supply Chain Analytics
… <p>Essay 2 consists of a field study at a large, multinational firm, testing the two machine learning methods of integration introduced in Essay 1—interactive machine learning (IML) and human guided machine learning (HGML). Analyzing the results of over three million datapoints across five product …
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Performative Parenting: Social Norms and Fathers' Use of Parental Leave Entitlements
… decisions made by fathers working for the same multinational firm in three countries: the UK, Sweden and Portugal. I argue that a Butlerian understanding can help answer the question frequently posed in the literature: why, when we know couples have egalitarian intentions prior to the birth of a …
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Essays on how institutions matter in value creation : the Korean case
… essay is titled "Caught in the Downside of Large-Firm Driven Development: Elite Engineers in the Korean Electronics Industry". Where foreign-educated R&D elites choose to work and pursue knowledge creation is a crucial issue in economic development. But the impact on knowledge creation of the …
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Analysing the One Certainty that Rules Us All: Trade (and Economic) Policy Uncertainty
… its best measurement and its impacts on firms’ international and domestic operations. The first paper, “Improving the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index”, studies how best to measure trade policy uncertainty. I show that Baker et al.’s (2016) and Caldara et al.’s (2020) newspaper-based Trade …