Foreign Firms
The political influence of foreign firms in developing countries
... that foreign firms have a slight advantage over domestic firms in terms of political influence: with values of other variables held at their mean, there is a 22% (16%) predicted probability that a ...
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The role of foreign firms in domestic exporting
... hand firms that enjoy domestic market power and have less incentive to explore the world market, and on the other hand these firms tend to be big and are more capable of ...that firms located in an ...
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Why are productivity and wages higher in foreign firms?
... UK firms, over the period ...acquisition, foreign or domestic, over the period while ownership of the rest, again domestic or foreign, remained unchanged across the same ...of foreign-owned ...
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In search of determinants of FDI backward spillovers: a meta-analysis
... include foreign firm characteristics and local firm characteristics. Foreign firms can be classified on the basis of their ownership structure (wholly-owned subsidiaries (WOSs) versus joint ventures ...
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The Impact Of Foreign Direct Investment On Technology Transfer In The Ethiopian Metal And Engineering Industries
... domestic firms respond positively to factors such as technology gap and human ...from foreign firms. This is because most of the foreign companies are engaged in labor intensive low technology ...
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Inter Industry Productivity Spillovers from Japanese and US FDI in Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector
... nese firms use other foreign firms as suppliers, which could be because these MNEs have prearranged contracts with a supplying network or because Mexico’s support- ing industry does not meet the ...
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The impact of foreign direct investment on labour productivity in the Chinese electronics industry
... and foreign owned sectors because of the lack of separate data on productivity, capital intensity, firm size and human capital for these two ...local firms in developing countries, the current study could ...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Labour: The Case of Indian Manufacturing
... that foreign firms possess a bundle of intangible assets such as sophisticated product differentiation, management and organizational skill, and superior technology which provides some monopolistic ...
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Industry agglomeration, subnational institution and foreign film performance.
... because foreign firms in the same industry tend to compete in the same segment of a product market and factor ...other foreign firms in the same industry, owing to the fact that their ...
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Characteristics of foreign-owned firms in British manufacturing
... for foreign firms is different, while the coefficients on the interaction between the foreign dummy and age are individually insignificant they are jointly ...for foreign-owned establishments ...
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The Relationship between Privatization and Regulation on Foreign Investment Policies
... introduce foreign firms into mixed oligopoly, they only consider the situation that foreign investors own 100% ownership of a ...introduce foreign ownership into the model of mixed ...
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Multinationals in economic development: the benefits of FDI
... 1 concentrate on four issues: the role of multinational enterprises in promoting technology transfer; the extent to which foreign firms act as "export catalysts" for domestic firms; the [r] ...
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The impact of foreign direct investment on Turkish manufacturing
... foreign firms operating in the Turkish manufacturing industry.. Therefore, the statistical data in this thesis is drawn.[r] ...
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oa Business Management Review - Do foreign-owned firms pay higher wages than locally-owned firms? Evidence from Tanzania s manufacturing sector
... Hence, foreign-owned firms pay higher wages to attract the best workers who put in their best ...that foreign-owned firms use more advanced technologies that require workers with better skills ...
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Foreign Direct Investment Spill over’s on Domestic Firms: a Case of Kenya’s Domestic Firms
... inward foreign investment and have taken a more proactive approach towards attracting FDI through the use of fiscal and financial ...from foreign firms (Javorcik, 2004); these are called horizontal ...
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Can the presence of foreign investment affect the capital structure of domestic firms?
... of foreign firms on firm capital structure may be that the dataset available was not sufficiently ...state-owned firms can be very ...of foreign presence on the capital structure of (a) ...
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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Productivity of Manufacturing Firms in Cameroon
... domestic firms. This implies that domestic firms do not benefit from the direct contact with foreign ...negative, foreign firms are therefore more efficient than their domestic ...of ...
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Foreign Ownership of Firms and Corruption in Africa
... of foreign ownership of firm variation across ...that firms that use E-mails are more likely to be owned by foreign investors and so the availability of internet connectivity in Africa plays an ...
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The Effects of FDI on Innovation Systems in Hungarian Regions: Where is the Synergy Generated?
... that foreign firms have diverse effects on local ...Although foreign-owned firms have become major actors for regional development in Hungary, these firms did not always have a positive ...
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Determinants of Intangibles Assets Disclosure in Annual Report: Evidence from Nigerian Quoted Companies
... Membership of a given industry is argued to affect levels of voluntary disclosure through political cost, signaling, proprietary cost, and legitimacy theory. Firms belonging to industries with high levels of ...
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