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Foreign ownership and firm survival : first evidence for enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Weche, John P. - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...

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Family ownership, workplace closure and the recession

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Gulbrandsen, Trygve - 2016

Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than … observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard … tendency to kill non-family businesses regardless of the equity level, a need for fresh capital has a tendency to kill family …

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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …

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Corruption, networking and foreign ownership : recent evidence from CEE countries

Pal, Sarmistha - 2013

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...

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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...

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Gender pay gap patterns in domestic and foreign-owned firms

Magda, Iga; Sałach-Dróżdż, Katarzyna - 2019

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with the findings of several other studies, we show that according to standard estimates of adjusted...

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Reexamining the conditional effect of foreign direct investment

Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro - 2013

The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...

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Globalization and firm performance

Catão, Luis; Faria, Pedro de; Martins, António; … - 2023

Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...

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Multinationals and plant exit : evidence from Chile

Álvarez, Roberto (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2005

; survival ; multinationals ; foreign direct investment ; exporting …

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Firms' global engagement and management practices

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017

We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …

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