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This article describes the ways in which cotton goods were commercialised during the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. Several national cases are analysed: Britain, as the Workshop of the World; France, Germany, Switzerland and the US, as core economies; and Italy and Spain...
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Cooperative enterprises have been in existence in all fields of economic activity for around 200 years, but they have tended to bunch in some sectors. This paper will examine which sectors have the most cooperatives at a world level, attempt to sketch out a typology and enquire into the reasons...
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We develop a three-country heterogeneous-firm model and show that FDI liberalization in one foreign country (F1 …) results in the following: (i) some firms from the home country switch from export to FDI in F1; (ii) skilled labor¡¯s wage … firms from the home country switch from FDI to export to another foreign country (F2). The effects from trade liberalization …
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examine the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on technology development in the PRC. We start by surveying a large and … growing literature on FDI and spillovers in the country. Most previous studies find evidence of positive spillovers. We then … continue to examine the effect of FDI on competition in the Chinese manufacturing sector and the effect of competition on firms …
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) may benefit local firms in the host country through various kinds of spillovers, but it … 2001–2008, this paper examines the aggregate effect of FDI on the survival of domestic private firms in Viet Nam. We … estimate the impact of both horizontal and vertical FDI and explore how the presence of state-owned enterprises (SOEs …
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firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve … serve the overseas market via FDI. The Paper then explores several implications of the individual firms’ decisions for … aggregate export and FDI sales relative to the domestic and foreign market sizes. In particular, it is shown that firm level …
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especially because it removes the arbitrariness in identifying control/influence. There is a large variety in even within FDI and …The issue of differentiating between FDI and FPI is related to the functional aspects of the investments. The … that while control/influence is a better indicator of the effectiveness of foreign association through investment in risk …
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We have examined macroeconomic transmission mechanism by analyzing the interaction process between macroeconomic forces and financial performance variables of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey employing panel data regression method. Our empirical analysis indicates that the...
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The trajectories of internationalisation followed by family firms can be viewed from several theoretical approaches ? phases of the internationalisation process; international entrepreneurship, sociological perspective, family business theory. An historical perspective of the internationalised...
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) once again became a newsworthy topic in the US media, this time during the contested Spring 2008 Democratic primary for the US presidency, particularly from campaign talking-points originating within Midwestern Rust-Belt states. Although the merits...
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