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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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Growing trade in intermediate goods : outsourcing, global sourcing or increasing importance of MNE networks?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the increasing importance of MNE networks. These hypotheses are...

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The Great Global Vitamins Conspiracy : Sanctions and Deterrence*

Connor, John M. - 2008

When they were discovered in 1999, the 16 vitamins cartels were probably the largest, most harmful, and harshest sanctioned international cartels of the late 20th century. Still today, the vitamins cartels are cited by antitrust authorities as the outstanding example of an enforcement action...

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The Great Global Vitamins Cartels

Connor, John M. - 2008

This paper is an excerpt of a comprehensive examination of the global bulk vitamins cartels of the 1990s. In terms of its precision and breadth of coverage, the quantitative information now available on vitamins surpasses that of almost any other modern cartel. For example, the internal records...

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The Demographics of Global Corporate Champions

Veron, Nicolas - 2012

This Working Paper presents a novel dataset documenting the demographics of the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization, as of 30 September 2007. Assigning a birth date to a large company is not a straightforward exercise and involves a measure of judgment, which possibly...

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Determinants of success and failure in the internationalisation of the cork business : a tale of two Iberian family firms

Lopes, João Carlos; Branco, Amélia; Parejo, Francisco; … - 2014 - (Draft version)

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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Chandler and Global Business History

Wilkins, Mira - 2011

What was Alfred D. Chandler's significance in the study of business history throughout the world? How did his views evolve? Why was his approach so influential? How did his thinking contribute to comparative business history and to the history of international business? This essay is designed to...

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The Global Risk Regime – New Roles for Auditors

Grody, Allan D. - 2015

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International Trade and Firms’ Heterogeneity Under Monopolistic Competition

Jean, Sébastien - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2000

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The Internationalization of Electronic Purse Networks : National Responsiveness vs. Benefits of Integration

Van Hove, Leo - 2008

This is a companion paper to Van Hove (2007). The latter paper builds on 16 firm-level case studies to examine the drivers behind the internationalization efforts of e-purse developers. Specifically, the paper tries to find out whether the approach proposed by Sarkar et al. (1999) for the...

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