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EU enlargement and consequences for FDI assisted industrial development

Narula, Rajneesh; Bellak, Christian - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

Many of the new member states as well as candidate and accession countries of the EU are confident that membership will result in substantially increased inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing. This paper discusses the policy issues and challenges that cohesion and accession...

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Serving low-income markets: Rethinking Multinational Corporations’ Strategies

SadreGhazi, Shuan; Duysters, Geert - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

In recent years a new debate is emerging about market-based approaches to serve lowincome communities, opportunities in such markets and the role of multinational corporations. This paper aims at providing an overview of low-income markets thereby analyzing challenges that multinational...

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Multinational enterprises, development and globalisation: Some clarifications and a research agenda

Narula, Rajneesh; Dunning, John H. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper revisits an earlier contribution (Narula and Dunning 2000) and considers how economic globalisation has changed the nature of the MNE, MNE motivations, the MNE subsidiary and the modalities by which they interact with domestic economic actors. Most developing countries, however, have...

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New insights on the role of location advantages in international innovation

Narula, Rajneesh; Santangelo, Grazia D. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

This paper takes a closer look at the role of location advantages in the spatial distribution of MNE R&D activity. In doing so, we have returned to first principles by revisiting our understanding of L and O advantages and their interaction. We revisit the meaning of L advantages, and offer a...

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Global Players from Brazil: drivers and challenges in the internationalization process of Brazilian firms

Carvalho, Flavia; Costa, Ionara; Duysters, Geert - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

This chapter discusses general patterns of internationalization of Brazilian firms. It highlights the main determinants for internationalization, the main destinations, as well as the modes of entry that Brazilian firms employ overseas. The paper also discusses some aspects related to the...

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Emerging country MNEs and the role of home countries: separating fact from irrational expectations

Narula, Rajneesh; Nguyen, Quyen T.K. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

This paper takes a look at the research on Emerging country multinational enterprises (EMNEs) over the last 25 years, and argues that growth in EMNE activity over the last 10 years continues to be dominated by Asian Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs), and to a lesser extent by Brazil, Russia,...

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R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry

Huang, Can; Qu, Zhe; Zhang, Mingqian; Zhao, Yanyun - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging … China shows that R&D offshoring has a positive effect on the intensity of the R&D of host country firms. However, the …&D offshoring diminishes as the geographical distance between the multinational and host country firms increases. …

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To Be or Not to Be at the BOP: A One-North-Many-Souths Model with Subsistence and Luxury Goods

Zon, Adriaan van; Schmidt, Tobias - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

In this paper we seek to explain the causes and consequences of Northern penetration in Southern subsistence markets in order to reach the countless masses at the Bottom of the (Income) Pyramid. To this end we formulate a One-North-Many-Souths model, inspired by the Krugman (1979) North-South...

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Estimations of US debt dynamics: Growth cum debt and the savings glut in Kouri’s model

Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

We derive the central differential equation of the neoclassical growth model for the case of a CES (constant elasticity of substitution) production function with perfect capital movement in terms of the debt/GDP ratio and estimate it in several ways for the United States and in a later step the...

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Embedding Research in Society: Development Assistance Options for Supporting Agricultural Innovation in a Global Knowledge Economy

Hall, Andy - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

The emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend enables and informs, provides a new context in which development assistance to agricultural research and development needs to be considered. The main argument in this paper, which...

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