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European Acquisitions in the United States : Re-Examining Olivetti-Underwood Fifty Years Later

Barbiellini Amidei, Federico - 2013

the time the largest-ever foreign takeover of a US company. The paper analyzes the Olivetti's acquisition of Underwood and …) Olivetti's adaptation to the American business system; 3) the development of internal knowledge resources within the subsidiary … States. We provide a historical narrative focused on three main issues: 1) head office control and subsidiary autonomy; 2 …

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Cultural and Political Embeddedness, Foreign Investment and Locality in Transforming Economies : The Case of ABB in Poland and China

Hardy, Jane; Currie, Frank; Ye, Zhen (Peter) - 2008

, which ultimately slows the pace of acquisition and control rather than fundamentally changing its nature … different corporate strategies for entry and acquisition. The cultural embeddedness of ABB meant that there were strong …

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International Transfer Pricing

Mcmahon, Connette; Corcelius, Aaron; Smith, Barbara - 2013

The goals of transfer pricing are to assign a monetary value to a transfer and to minimize the taxes paid by a company as whole. However, because a single company can now have operations literally around the world, transfer pricing has become a very complicated, costly, and lucrative business...

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Transfer Pricing

Barnhouse, Nicole - 2013

The main focus of this paper is on the international transfer pricing issues encountered by multinational enterprises (MNE) and the countries they do business in. This paper explores how the conflicting interests of MNEs and the countries they do business in affects each party's bottom line, tax...

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Transfer Pricing

Gilbert, Jahlesha; McMillan, Henry; Walters, K. - 2013

This paper examines transfer pricing in general. First, three different approaches to transfer pricing options and their advantages and disadvantages are investigated. Based on the analysis, it is difficult to make recommendations on the best transfer pricing methods. Next, the international...

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Interpreting the Roles and Economic Importance of Cooperative Enterprises in a Historical Perspective

Zamagni, Vera Negri - 2012

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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'Slicing the Value Chain' Internationally : Empirical Evidence on the Offshoring Strategy by French Firms

Jabbour, Liza - 2008

This paper analyzes the off-shoring strategy from an empirical view. It focuses on a set of models, extracts a set of testable hypothesizes and creates a suitable set of variable to test their validity. This analysis is based on a data set from French manufacturing firms that provides detailed...

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Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Restructuring : Micro Evidence - The Slovenian Firms’ Growth Model

Zajc, Katja; Kumar, Andrej - 2013

We examine the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on the growth of local firms in terms of employment and … channels through which inward FDI affects the firm dynamics in a host country prove to be in general significant. First, there …

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Foreign Direct Investment in the Context of Global Value Chains and Superstar Firms

Vrolijk, Kasper - 2021

these joint developments mean for how we think about and need to examine FDI. Against this setting, I explore four … dimensions of FDI: its conceptual aspects, measurement, determinants and implications. I show that including relevant aspects of … dictate determinants and implications of FDI. From the analysis emerges that relational costs of production, firm …

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The Role of Foreign Firms in India Over the Past Half Century : Retrospect and Prospect

Majumdar, Sumit K. - 2014

This article evaluates whether the changing presence of foreign firms in India's corporate sector has had an impact on the long-run economic performance of India's industrial sector. The patterns of corporate demography, including the role of foreign firms, in India over the last five decades,...

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