Canada is consistently ranked among the best places to live. However, its potential for sustainable prosperity could depend on how well its business sector navigates a rapidly changing world. Canadian companies innovate and export less than their American peers and generate lower returns from...

This paper addresses an important development issue in literature of international production, namely what motivates market‐seeking foreign direct investment (FDI) to undertake export activities. It is well recognized in the concerned literature that export‐oriented FDI is more beneficial...

This paper using Malmquist productivity indexes analyzes the impact of internalization on productivity efficiency and competitive advantage for a sample of 395 firms with foreign ownership operating in the Greek manufacturing sector. A number of different factors in respect to firms’...

Climate change, security and cost of energy supplies, and the competitiveness of firms and economies have been focal points of the general political and economic policy debate in recent years. This article examines the choices in this field made at global level with the Kyoto Protocol and in...

Previous empirical evidence searching for externalities from Foreign Direct investment in Portugal showed mixed results. Using a new database containing 5,045 Portuguese manufacturing firms grouped by technological trajectories, we investigate the occurrence and magnitude of externalities from...

This literature survey paper overall investigates the presence of multinational corporations (MNCs) and its associations with productivity and wages in Southeast Asian manufacturing during the last few decades prior to 2010. Despite the fact that MNC-share tendency and levels are mixed across...

Canada is consistently ranked among the best places to live. However, its potential for sustainable prosperity could depend on how well its business sector navigates a rapidly changing world. Canadian companies innovate and export less than their American peers and generate lower returns from...

This study observes the potential of identity fusion and pro-group motivation to improve employees’ productivity in the textile manufacturing industry in a time of health crisis. This follows explicitly to observe whether the identity-fused employees are pro-group motivated and exert more...

This paper examines the technology use of US manufacturing businesses. Results from a 2023 survey of US manufacturers (n=268) show that computer-aided design (CAD), numerically or computer-controlled machines, and programmable controllers / programmable logic controllers have considerably higher...

Starting with the industry policy resolution of 1956, MSMEs have been given considerable attention in the industrial policies announced in India. Although the Mahalanobis model adopted for the Second Five Year plan emphasized the growth of heavy industries, the small scale and consumer goods...