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Determining the Choice of Entry Mode of Multinationals : My 6 Million Regressions

Ramada-Sarasola, Magdalena - 2010

Motivated by the findings of Ramada-Sarasola (2009) and the lack of robustness of the previous literature's results on foreign entry mode choice to model specification in this paper I perform an Extreme Bounds Analysis to determine which of almost 60 explanatory variables used in the literature...

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The new paradigm of international production : empirical evidence of Spanish offshoring activities

Matías Batalla, David de - 2016

mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …

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Determinants of internationalisation : do they differ among sectors and business functions? ; evidence from firm-level data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stucki, Tobias - 2013

The relevance of services FDI strongly increased over the last two decades. As goods and services differ with respect to important characteristics, one may expect that the determinants of internationalisation are not identical in manufacturing and the service sector. However, there is...

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Does the explanatory power of the OLI approach differ among sectors and business functions? : evidence from firm-level data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stucki, Tobias - 2016

As services and goods differ with respect to important characteristics, one may expect that the determinants of internationalisation are not identical for services and manufacturing. Surprisingly, there is practically no firm-level research contrasting the two sectors in this respect. To fill...

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Cultural Distance, Firm Boundaries, and Global Sourcing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023

Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their...

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Regional distribution of German-Czech multinationals on the domestic market

Schäffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2012 - Preliminary version

This article deals with the domestic location of German multinational firms which have affiliates in the Czech Republic. Due to the common border the Czech Republic represents an attractive target country for both vertical and horizontal direct investments. In the year 2009 the sum of direct and...

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Assets or Liabilities of Foreignness? On the Role of TNCs in International Business

Freiling, Jörg - 2012

Cross‐border activities of firms are said to be risky and complicated due to so‐called ‘liabilities of foreignness' (LOF) (Zaheer & Mosakowski 1997; Zaheer 1995). These LOF are difficulties firms in general have to face when acting in environments they are not familiar with. The existence of...

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Acquisitions as Entrepreneurship : Asymmetries, Opportunities and the Internationalization of Multinationals from Emerging Economies

Madhok, Anoop - 2015

We investigate the rapid internationalization of many multinationals from emerging economies through acquisition in advanced economies. We conceptualize these acquisitions as an act and form of entrepreneurship, aimed to overcome the ‘liability of emergingness' incurred by these firms and to...

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Born Local : Two Avenues to Internationalization

Acs, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri A. - 2014

Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to internationalize, even if that is the...

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Productivity and the internationalization of firms : cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investments

Trax, Michaela - 2011

This paper extends the literature on the determinants of international activity at the firm level towards cross-border acquisitions and greenfield investments as different modes of FDI using a rich dataset of British firms. While multinational firms are characterized by higher productivity...

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