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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void

Herkenhoff, Philipp - 2020

In recent decades, a large and increasing number of leading firms in a diverse set of industries have faced allegations of ‘unethical' practices along their international value chains. In many cases this has triggered consumer boycotts and NGO campaigns, introducing a new link between upstream...

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Vertical Foreign Direct Investment : Make, Sell and (Not) Buy

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2016

According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...

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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer : Evidence from China

Jiang, Kun - 2018

This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a domestic firm that together set up a new firm, the joint venture. Employing administrative data on all international joint ventures in China from 1998 to 2007—roughly a quarter of...

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Global Sourcing Decisions and Firm Productivity : Evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010

We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is driven by a hold-up problem caused by lack of...

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Global Sourcing of Heterogeneous Firms : Theory and Evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2015

(2004). This model invokes the property rights theory of the firm in order to pin down firm boundaries as the outcome of an …

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Supplier Search and Rematching in Global Sourcing - Theory and Evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice - 2018

in line with the predictions of our theory. In particular, we find that the share of short-term collaborations is higher …

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The Internationalisation of R&D and the Knowledge Production Function

Garcia-Vega, Maria; Hofmann, Patricia; Kneller, Richard - 2021

This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between acquisitions by MNEs from technologically leading countries and those behind the technological frontier. We show that both acquire similarly R&D intensive domestic firms, but there are...

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How Far Away is an Intangible? Services FDI and Distance

Davies, Ronald B.; Guillin, Amélie - 2021

in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance …, genetic distance, and transport time. Across different measures of distance, the traditional determinants of outbound FDI …

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The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships : Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms

Bahar, Dany - 2018

present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … intensity and distance trade-off weakening when a non-stop flight exists between the headquarters and the foreign subsidiary …

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The Spatial Organization of Multinational Firms

Defever, Fabrice - 2021

. However, the impact of distance is dependent on the type of investment (production or service). While within-firm co …

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