Dissertations / Theses: 'Multinational firms'

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Gao, Yong Gerald. "Multinational firms' sequential entry strategies." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36633124.

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Gao, Yong Gerald, and 高勇. "Multinational firms' sequential entry strategies." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36633124.

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Temouri, Yama. "Multinational firms, productivity and employment." Thesis, Aston University, 2008. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/15397/.

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Over the last three decades foreign direct investment (FDI) has become the most visible driver of globalisation. It has grown faster than world output and international trade and now reports world annual flows exceeding 1,000 billion US dollars. In this period, Germany has undergone significant changes in order to play an important role in the globalisation process. Apart from being a member state of the European Union (EU) whose key feature is the free flow of trade, investment and labour, the re-unification of East and West Germany in 1990 has been a significant development. This in effect has meant that East Germany as well as other Eastern European nations opened up to foreign investment for the first time. In this period, Germany has attracted in excess of 10 per cent of inward FDI into the EU and invested around 15 per cent of all FDI in the EU. This thesis explores empirically the potential impact of FDI on firms operating in and investing from Germany over a ten year period. Using panel data at the firm-level it concentrates on three areas relating to FDI. Firstly, it considers whether foreign-owned firms are more productive than German multinational firms and German non-multinational firms. Secondly, the thesis considers the impact of German investments abroad on domestic productivity. Finally, employment effects emanating from outward high-tech FDI are estimated for the leading OECD (Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, namely Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Japan. The findings of the first analysis indicate that while foreign-owned firms are generally more productive than German non-multinationals, there is no clear cut difference between foreign-owned firms and German multinationals. These differences would not have been uncovered, had the analysis compared foreign firms with all domestic firms. Equally, location within Germany is also important, as this productivity gap is more pronounced for firms which are located in the Eastern states. The findings of the second analysis suggest that engaging in outward FDI has an overall positive effect on the parent firm's productivity at home. Finally, results of the third analysis show that an expansion of high-tech offshoring activities by OECD multinationals (MNEs) is not associated with any reduction in employment at home.

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Riedel, Nadine. "Essays on the Taxation of Multinational Firms." Diss., lmu, 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-85304.

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Mayr, Dominik Stephan. "Return and risk analysis in multinational firms /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016429887&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Ma, Alyson C. "Trade and multinational firms : evidence from China /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Choi, Hye Lin. "Essays in Multinational Firms and Productivity Growth of Domestically-Owned Firms." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396886658.

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Zagrajczuk-Ray, Anna. "The economy of multinationals : essays on international trade, income inequality and strategies of multinational firms." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01E013.

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Cette thèse analyse les stratégies des firmes multinationales dans leurs différentes dimensions et évalue leur effet sur les consommateurs et travailleurs. Les essaies consécutifs s'intéressent aux choix d'expansion des FMNs, leur décision de délocalisation de production, leurs stratégies de l'investissement direct à l'étranger (IDE) au niveau agrégé, ainsi que les pratiques de la discrimination de prix sur les marchés aux fortes inégalités de revenu
This thesis examines both theoretically and empirically strategies of multinational firms in their various dimensions and evaluates their impact on consumers and workers. The following essays look at MNEs' product expansion choices, their production localization decisions, foreign direct investment strategies (FOI) at the aggregate level and, finally, price discrimination practices on more unequal markets

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Mokkas, Socrates. "Corporate Taxation and the Behaviour of Multinational Firms." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519806.

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Galilea, Gisele Walczak. "'Tax deferral' and shareholding structure of multinational firms." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/25679.

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While firms are looking for tax savings through the choice of investment projects (i.e., through investments in new foreign subsidiaries in countries with the lowest tax rate), countries are aware that firms are sensitive to tax factors and thus adopt instruments such as tax deferral to prevent the 'flight' of capital. However, by discouraging repatriation, this tax instrument promotes 'multinationals' flight' (i.e., the corporate inversion of multinationals). This paper demonstrates that instruments such as tax deferral accelerate the process of 'multinational flight of the home country'. Using both a reduced form analysis and a dynamic structural model, we find that multinationals in countries with a worldwide system of taxation and tax deferral have a greater incentive to avoid residual taxation of foreign earnings in the home country and therefore repatriate less than half of their foreign earnings. In turn, this 'nonrepatriation' increased the probability of relocation by 4.4%.
Enquanto as empresas buscam economizar impostos através da escolha de determinados projetos de investimento (ou seja, investindo em novas subsidiárias estrangeiras em países com a menor alíquota de impostos), os países, por sua vez, estão cientes de que as empresas são sensíveis as questões tributárias e adotam instrumentos como diferimento de impostos para impedir o 'voo' do capital. Contudo, ao desencorajar a repatriação, esse instrumento fiscal promove o 'voo das multinacionais' (ou seja, a inversão corporativa das multinacionais). Este trabalho demonstra que instrumentos como o diferimento de impostos aceleram o processo de 'voo da multinacional do país de origem'. Utilizando uma análise na forma reduzida e um modelo estrutural dinâmico, descobrimos que as multinacionais localizadas em países com um sistema mundial de tributação e diferimento de impostos têm um incentivo maior para evitar a tributação residual dos rendimentos estrangeiros no país de origem e, portanto, repatriam menos da metade de seus ganhos estrangeiros. Essa 'não-repatriação', por sua vez, aumenta a probabilidade de realocação em 4,4%.

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Mshelia, James Buba. "Political risk assessment by multinational firms in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2015. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/30193/.

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The study offers an insight into the dynamics of the relationship between political risk and multinational firms in the context of emerging markets. Political Risk Assessment (PRA) importance for multinational firms investing in emerging markets has increased significantly with the growing rate of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) globally. It is used for managing political risk, and decision-making processes during firms’ internationalisation, and has been identified as one of the key determinants of FDI into developing countries. However, only a few empirical studies on PRA have been undertaken in emerging markets. Previous studies have shown that political risk has been evolving and has resulted in a range of consequences that have influenced the type of strategies which firms adopt. It is in recognition of this that the need to identify a country’s specific political risk factors and their consequences for multinational firms that this study is undertaken in Nigeria. Despite the flux in the political environment of the country with its population divided along cultural, ethnic, language and religious lines within its different geographical regions, Nigeria has witnessed a continuous inflow of FDI. This research contributes to the assessment of political risk by critically analysing the determinants and indicators to examine how the consequences of political risk impact upon multinational firms, with a view to understanding the managerial practices associated with managing political risk in Nigeria. Six objectives were identified as follows: to investigate the determinants of political risk; to examine their impacts; to investigate the variables and indicators used to forecast political risk; to investigate the consequences of political risk; to explore practices of PRA in multinational firms and to identify strategies used to manage and mitigate political risk in Nigeria. Likewise, four hypotheses underpinning these objectives were formulated to understand the dynamics of the relationship between political risk and multinational firms. This study empirically used a sequential mixed method strategy to analyse statistically as well as using thematic and content analysis data collected through a multi-method approach from 74 multinational firms in Nigeria. The dataset of the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) PRA annual rating for Nigeria within the period 2011 to 2015 was also analysed. The study identifies eight determinants that contribute to the emergence of political risk. It highlighted factors that influence the consequences of political risk on multinational firms which supports the conceptual premise for identifying reasons why firms manage and mitigate political risk in countries, and why some internationalise into specific countries. Empirically, it showed that the impact of political risk varies from one part of a country to another, as do the consequences of their impacts which inform why multinational firms are located more in some parts of the country, and how the consequences of political risk will differ between firms, depending on their location in a country. These findings have implications for practice and showed that firms could improve their conduct of PRA, influence the type of strategies they adopt and how to explore quantitative PRA methodologies when operating in similar emerging markets. This study also showed that some risk indicators used for forecasting political risk appeared major and did not retain the same value within the country. The case of Nigeria showed that the presence of high political risk does not deter firms if the financial and economic risk is low. It reveals also that the practice of PRA differs within firms and that the strategies used to mitigate political risk mostly involve the conduct of PRA and engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

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Puplampu, Bill Buenar. "Differential perceptions of expatriates : what are the mediating variables?; a study of UK expatriates in Ghana." Thesis, University of East London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359915.

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Zhao, Jinzhuo. "Essays on foreign direct investment, trade and multinational firms /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Zemoi, Jonas. "Spillover effects of Multinational Enterprises on domestic firms productivity." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Economics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9431.

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Since the 1990s and the Swedish membership in the European Union in 1995, the presence of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) has increased radically in the Swedish economy. The objective with this study is to analyze MNEs effects in different regions within the Swedish manufacturing industry in terms of productivity. Is a region with more MNEs, more pro-ductive than a region with a lower share of MNEs? The theory claims that productivity spillovers of MNEs occurs through three channels namely, via R&D, increased competi-tion and transmission of technology. By observing 81 regions which consists of all 290 municipals in Sweden and taking the average value of productivity and the explanatory variables trough 1997-2004, a cross-sectional analysis is conducted. The results evidently showed signs of productivity spillovers of MNEs on local firms in the manufacturing in-dustry. Findings suggest that (1) a regions with higher share of MNEs did face a higher re-gional productivity. However the spillovers was not successfully absorbed by regions with a industry structure that was not dominated by a the manufacturing industry. (2) Larger re-gions, in terms of population, tend to show a lower productivity level compared to the av-erage levels of the rest of the regions, since their structure was dominated by the service sector. (3) Regions with small technological difference compared to the MNEs, tends to hold the skills and knowledge needed to efficiently exploit the productivity spillovers, hence MNEs influence on regional productivity was greater in these regions than regions with a lower level of technical capability.

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Bather, Sebastian N. S. (Sebastian Neville Sven). "Building and sustaining effective relational contracts in multinational firms." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80688.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-75).
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how complex interactions in organizational transactions and behavior can be better understood by using theory related to relational contracts. Further, given this understanding, suggestions are made as to how firms can increase competitive advantage by building and sustaining better relational contracts in their organizations.
by Sebastian N.S. Bather.
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Gokan, Toshitaka. "Industrial agglomeration under the presence of scale economies on transport firms and multinational firms." Kyoto University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/143932.

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Osegowitsch, Thomas. "The relationship between global integration and performance in multinational professional engineering companies." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Management, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0059.

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This study investigates the link between global integration -- defined as the intra-firm cross-border transfer of operational resources -- and performance in multinational professional engineering companies. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques, we find some support for a positive association. We review two bodies of scholarship germane to our topic: the global integration - performance literature and the multinationality - performance literature. The inclusion of the latter is justified since the espoused performance benefits of multinationality are predominantly realised through global integration. Based upon an evaluation of these two bodies of scholarship and qualitative insights, we propose a positive relationship between global integration and performance as well as a mediating relationship, with global integration acting as a mediator between multinationality and performance. Hypothesis testing is performed in Partial Least Squares, a structural equation modelling technique ideally suited for small samples. Results reveal a significant positive association between global integration and MNC profitability. A separate research model testing the relationship between global integration and the alternative dependent, MNC growth, is rejected. Further analysis of the profitability-based research model provides support for the mediational hypothesis: the relationship between multinationality and profitability is fully mediated, suggesting no gains from multinationality per se. Supplementary tests reveal that the profitability effects of global integration are enhanced when it is strongly motivated by the desire to take advantage of specialised skills within the MNC; no such claim of moderation can be made when global integration is strongly motivated by a desire to improve staff utilisation on a global basis. The relationship between global integration and profitability is also unaffected by the origins (headquarters vs. subsidiaries) of the intra-firm operational resource transfers that constitute global integration.

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AlAzzawi, Shireen AlDemerdashi. "Knowledge flows, innovation and multinational firms : evidence from US patents /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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McGovern, Patrick G. "Controlling commitment : the management of technical labour in multinational firms." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358524.

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Liu, Qing, and 刘青. "Essays on multinational firms: export, FDI, and cross-border acquisitions." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45151143.

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Altzinger, Wilfried, Christian Bellak, and Rudolf Duris. "The emergence of multinational firms from Eastern Europe in Austria." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2002. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1522/1/document.pdf.

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The paper examines the question of the emergence of multinational firms from Eastern Europe in Austria on different levels of aggregation: The first part uses aggregated data on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in Austria from Central- and East European Countries (CEECs). These data show the importance of outward FDI from CEECs directed to Austria. The second part analyses survey data on the basis of a mailing survey sent to 210 firms from CEECs registered in Austria. Although the response rate was low, an interesting picture emerges of outward FDI directed to Austria. Overall, Austria is an important host country for outward foreign direct investment from Central- and East European Countries, yet not a bridgehead to other Western markets.
Series: WU-Jahrestagung 2002

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Janse, van Rensburg Ulrich. "Do local firms have a competitive advantage over multinational enterprises?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30608.

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This study describes the factors that drive competitiveness between local firms and multinational enterprises (MNE) in a retail consumer market of an emerging country. It also seeks to identify the approaches and strategies the competitors consider and adopt to maintain the advantage in the consumer market.The objective of this study is to identify the factors local firms and MNE’s will consider when competing with each other. The study also wants to identify the preferred mode of entry of MNE’s.The study will be a quantitative study where relationships between competitors and their performance in the market are measured.The results revealed that local firms do have a competitive advantage over MNE’s in the retail consumer market due to the local firm’s knowledge of the market, rather than the technology and skills. It’s also clear that MNE have a preferred mode of entry and they chose to compete in the industries where they are stronger than the local firms.
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
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Kumru, Utku. "Essays on multinational firms strategic trade policy, exporting, and productivity /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/454163224/viewonline.

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Choquet, Pierre-Louis. "Fragmented horizons : multinational firms & ethical life in the Anthropocene." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:20676b4d-6a0d-4c12-a0dd-5826e95f7fb1.

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In this research project, I engage in the task of delineating the conditions of possibility of human action in the institutional structures of contemporary capitalism, in the age of the Anthropocene. In other words, I reflect on the circumstances required for people to relate appropriatively to the socio-ecological practices they deploy at the workplace, so that these resonate with their fundamental aspirations and thus positively contribute towards the collective search of the good life, with and for others, in just institutions. Once described as the 'blue planet' which sphericity could be admired from outer space, the Earth has become, with the advent of the Anthropocene, a thin, tiny, fragile pellicle - a critical zone with frail equilibriums in which human beings have to live, and that admits no outside. However, as most societies have embarked on an unprecedented spiral of acceleration, attempts to redefine sustainable ethical horizons and to articulate corresponding transformative practices stumble over the rigidity of existing social structures, which technological lock-ins inherited from the past significantly reinforce. This inertia is particularly critical in the case of the fossil fuel industry: it is indeed now widely recognized that the unchecked extraction of hydrocarbons is a key propelling force to the perturbation of the core biophysical processes that regulate the Earth system. The 'business-as-usual' activities of public-listed oil and gas multinational firms generate a non-negligible share of these material flows: as such, these significantly contribute towards re-shaping nature-society relationships by accentuating climate change. The doctoral work I have developed addresses this conundrum through the prism of an empirical case study, and draws for that matter on a fieldwork research conducted between 2015 and 2017 with the employees of the French corporation Total, both in France and in the Republic of Congo. In this dissertation, I develop an in-depth analysis of the empirical material gathered by interpreting it through the concept of alienation, which I argue can fruitfully be 'put to work' to assess the ethical experience of individuals at the workplace in the fossil fuel industry. More precisely, I demonstrate that the concept of alienation accommodates the resources required not only to outline fine-grained descriptions of the multi-layered social reality in which Total's employees evolve, but also to develop a normative critique of the generic form of life that gets articulated in the corporate realm. This leads me to introduce the concept of dwelling as a dialectical opposite to alienation, and to suggest that it can be used as a normative yardstick to describe constructive relationships with the self and the world. More particularly, I put this concept in tension with empirical reality in order to identify workable, context-sensitive institutional principles that would enable to re-embed human work and business firms in their background social-ecological framework. By undertaking such an intellectual project, I hope to formulate an argument that builds insightful bridges between social philosophy and political ecology by both honouring and offering a fresh view on a longstanding tradition of critical, humanist thought in the social sciences.

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Křečková, Kroupová Zuzana. "Cultural Specifics of Management in Multinational Companies." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2002. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77115.

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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly economically connected, and cultural diversity of employees is gaining importance as a crucial competitive advantage. Cross-cultural communication ability is becoming a key management skill in multinational firms and is equally important for other employees who are exposed to other cultures in the workplace. This work mainly focuses on cultural specifics of management in multinational firms. The goal of this thesis is to discover how different national cultures influence management of people, particularly work relationships, management tools and organization structures. The author discovers this through cultural dimensions that she updates for the Czech Republic and Slovakia for her work using methodology of Fons Trompenaars. The author tests three hypotheses: about the development of preferences of cultural dimensions in time, differences in preferences of cultural dimensions of Czechs and Slovaks and differences in preferences of cultural dimensions based on people's gender, age and the number of years spent abroad. The work also presents mapping of changes of attitudes in specific work and personal situations of Czechs and Slovaks over a period of time. The work additionally analyzes the influence of economic factors on work attitudes and preferences of cultural dimensions and identifies areas of potential conflicts between the cultures of Czechs and Slovaks in the workplace. It also compares results with other researches about cultural dimensions and cultural standards. The work concludes by presenting culturally specific recommendations for management of Czechs and Slovaks.

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Venaik, Sunil AGSM UNSW. "A Model of Global Marketing in Multinational Firms: An Emprirical Investigation." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. AGSM, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17479.

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With increasing globalisation of the world economy, there is growing interest in international business research among academics, business practitioners and public policy makers. As marketing is usually the first corporate function to internationalise, it occupies the centre-stage in the international strategy debate. The objective of this study is to understand the environmental and organisational factors that drive the desirable outcomes of learning, innovation and performance in multinational firms. By adapting the IO-based, resource-based and contingency theories, the study proposes the environment-conduct-outcome framework and a model of global marketing in MNCs. Using the structural equation modelling-based PLS methodology, the model is estimated with data from a global survey of marketing managers in MNC subsidiaries. The results show that the traditional international marketing strategy and organisational structure constructs of adaptation and autonomy do not have a significant direct effect on MNC performance. Instead, the effects are largely mediated by the networking, learning and innovation constructs that are included in the proposed model. The study also shows that, whereas collaborative decision making has a positive effect on interunit learning, subsidiary autonomy has a significant influence on innovativeness in MNC subsidiaries. Finally, it is found that marketing mix adaptation has an adverse impact on the performance of MNCs facing high global integration pressures but improves the performance of MNCs confronted with low global integration pressures. The findings have important implications for global marketing in MNCs. First, to enhance organisational learning and innovation and ultimately improve corporate performance, MNCs should simultaneously develop the potentially conflicting organisational attributes of collective decision-making among the subsidiaries and greater autonomy to the subsidiaries. Second, to tap local knowledge, MNCs should increasingly regard their country units as 'colleges' or 'seminaries' of learning rather than merely as 'subsidiaries' with secondary or subordinate roles. Finally, to improve MNC performance, the key requirement is to achieve a good fit between the global organisational structure, marketing strategy and business environment. Overall, the results provide partial support for the IO-based and resource-based views and strong support for the contingency perspective in international strategy.

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Gong, Yaping. "Staffing subsidiaries of multinational firms : Environmental antecedents and subsidiary level outcomes /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1272986292.

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Benoit, Florence. "Multinational firms in (global) cities: mimicry, knowledge networks, and economic growth." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2021. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/341/1/Benoit_phdthesis.pdf.

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This dissertation examines the dynamic interrelationship between MNEs and cities. First, it examines cities as MNEs’ foreign direct investment location choice and imitation processes within these FDI location choices. Imitation not only enhances the attractiveness of the city by contributing to the generation of agglomeration economies and by encouraging additional imitation, but it also contributes to the further development of the international connectivity of the city and the creation of global knowledge networks. Second, this dissertation introduces a new measure of international connectivity of cities in terms of collaboration on innovation. In addition, it elaborates on the interrelated roles of different types of international connectivity on city economic growth and the influence of this connectivity on the surrounding areas of the city. The dissertation has four contributing chapters, in addition to an introduction (Chapter 1) and general conclusion (Chapter 6). Chapter 2 examines the role of domestic cultural characteristics and investor heterogeneity in shaping imitation of foreign direct investment location choices by MNEs. While existing research has indicated that firms may imitate their peers in order to gain legitimacy among stakeholders, a national cultural dimension has rarely been included. The chapter argues that imitation processes depend on the presence of three cultural traits of home countries, i.e. collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance, which can jointly act as domestic conformity forces strengthening the incentive to imitate. This influence is most salient in particular for firms that lack substantial domestic legitimacy and those that have limited multinational operations. The empirical findings, using a conditional logit model on a sample of 1050 greenfield manufacturing investments in the United States by 662 firms based in 35 different home countries, confirm that the tendency to engage in imitation is stronger for firms based in home countries characterized by greater collectivism and overall national conformity forces. Furthermore, the empirical findings conclude that less legitimate firms and firms with limited multinational operations are significantly responsive to two domestic cultural traits, i.e. collectivism and power distance. This may imply that targeted policies in attracting FDI from countries with such domestic conformity forces may prove to be more effective by follow up investments, yet it will attract in particular smaller and younger firms and firms with limited multinational operations. Chapter 3 puts forward a new measurement of international connectivity of global cities focusing on collaborations in innovation, by drawing on a novel and extensive database of geocoded patent inventor addresses. While existing research has mainly measured international connectivity by the worldwide office networks of advanced producer services firms (e.g. consulting, accounting and insurance firms) in cities, a more inclusive understanding of city connectivity remains absent. Hence, this chapter looks at international connectivity based on another central function of global cities, i.e. their role as prominent spaces for knowledge exchange and collaboration on innovation. The findings of this chapter, focusing on the 125 cities in 46 countries, confirm the role of global cities as prominent places for knowledge exchange and collaboration of innovation and the growing importance of international collaboration for innovation. Chapter 4 compares the new measure of connectivity based on innovation collaboration to the traditional indicator on advanced producer services for 129 cities in 76 countries. The findings suggest broadly similar trends, but also highlight some important differences suggesting specialization advantages of a strong position in one of the two networks. When analyzing the simultaneous and interrelated influences of the knowledge network and the advanced producer services network of cities on their economic growth using a fixed effects panel regression, the findings suggest that both aspects of cities’ international connectivity may allow their economies to grow, but that they reduce each other’s association with city economic growth. This suggest that specialization in one type of network and connectivity and building on existing strengths may be more beneficial. Chapter 5 analyses the influence of global city international connectivity on collaborative linkages of the city with the surrounding area of these global cities. It argues that the international connectivity may render global cities less likely to establish intensive local innovation linkages with surrounding areas, but that the nature of this relationship may depend on the characteristics of the global city and their surroundings. More specifically, we argue that global linkages are more detrimental to the establishment of local linkages if the global city is a technology leader, but less so if the surrounding area has a greater absorptive capacity and features a smaller travel distance to the global city. The findings, based on the collaborative linkages of 21 US global cities and 614 surrounding counties using a fixed effects Poisson regression model, provide clear indications of international connectedness being associated with local disconnectedness. However, it also suggests that the relationship between global city international connectivity and their local linkages depends on the characteristics of both the global city and their surrounding area. This illustrates that knowledge exchange does not always cause an equal spread of opportunities across geographies and calls for innovation policies focusing on improving the knowledge convergence between the surrounding areas and cities.

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Bellak, Christian. "Multinational enterprises and their domestic counterparts. Past research, current issues and future directions." Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2001. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1332/1/document.pdf.

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This paper reviews and summarises the results of selected empirical studies on performance gaps between multinational enterprises and their domestic counterparts. Performance gaps arise in such fields as productivity, profitability, wages, skills, factor intensity and growth. Of central interest is the question to what extent is foreign ownership an explanatory factor of performance gaps? Empirical evidence supports the existence of performance gaps between foreign and domestic firms, yet foreign ownership is a much less important explanatory factor than normally assumed. Structural factors like industry, size and multi-nationality per se are more important. It is argued that such results are broadly consistent with those derived in the literatures on ownership change, on foreign entry and on spillovers. The concluding section discusses the normative issue whether there is a case for investment promotion policies to discriminate between firms on the basis of performance gaps by ownership.
Series: Working Papers Series "Growth and Employment in Europe: Sustainability and Competitiveness"

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Broll, Udo, Peter Wenzel, and Kit Pong Wong. "Multinational Firm, Exchange Rate Risk and the Impact of Regret on Trade." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-150460.

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This paper examines the behavior of the regret-averse multinational firm under exchange rate uncertainty. The multinational firm simultaneously sells in the home market and exports to a foreign country. We characterize the multinational firm's regret-averse preferences by a modified utility function that includes disutility from having chosen ex-post suboptimal alternatives. The extent of regret depends on the difference between the actual home currency profit and the maximum home currency profit attained by making the optimal production and export decisions had the multinational firm observed the true realization of the random spot exchange rate. We show that the conventional results that the multinational firm optimally produces less, sells more domestically, and export less abroad under uncertainty than under certainty holds if the multinational firm is not too regret averse. Using a simple binary model wherein the random spot exchange rate can take on either a low value or a high value with positive probability, we show that the multinational firm may optimally produce more, sell less domestically, and export more abroad under uncertainty than under certainty, particularly when the multinational firm is sufficiently regret averse and the low spot exchange rate is very likely to prevail.

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Chowdhury, Rashedur Rob. "Reconceptualizing the dynamics of the relationship between marginalized stakeholders and multinational firms." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252303.

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Caster, JoAnna, and Dana Linnes. "Internal Branding in Multinational Firms : A gap analysis of internal stakeholder perceptions." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26195.

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Authors: JoAnna Caster & Dana Linnes Tutor: Setayesh Sattari Title: Internal Branding in Multinational Firms- A Gap Analysis of Internal Stakeholder Perceptions Background: As globalization increases, the topic of internal branding has grown in popularity, particularly as a way for firms to secure a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. The topic is quite new however, and there are many aspects that have not been fully explored, including the influence of internal stakeholder perceptions on a firm’s internal brand and related support activities. Purpose: The purpose of this research study is to 1) identify whether a gap exists between employee and manager perceptions of a firm’s internal brand and internal branding activities and 2) investigate the influence of a firm’s country of origin on those perceptions. Delimitations: The study was limited to only medium and large sized firms that have international operations. Additionally, only internal stakeholders were included in the study and the research was limited to respondent’s perceptions, and not necessarily the actual internal brand and related supporting processes or structures. Method: The research was qualitative and data was collected via 24 in-depth interviews of managerial and non-managerial employees at 10 medium and large sized firms. The data was then analyzed using a pattern-matching technique. Conclusions: Perceptions of both managerial and non-managerial employees did not indicate significant gaps, however there seemed to be an unclear understanding of what an internal brand is and what respondent’s firm’s internal brand represents. Also, the country of origin did not have a significant influence on those perceptions, as most respondents indicated that they perceived their firm’s internal brand as primarily “global.” Keywords: internal branding, internal brand, international marketing, marketing strategy, stakeholder perceptions, internal marketing orientation, human resource management, country of origin

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Kazakova, Ekaterina [Verfasser], and Volker [Akademischer Betreuer] Nocke. "Essays on multinational firms and international trade / Ekaterina Kazakova ; Betreuer: Volker Nocke." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1167683242/34.

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Youssef, Ali Abobakr. "Factors affecting the attractiveness of developing countries to multinational firms and banks." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421054.

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Anastassopoulos, George. "Multinational firms and the evolution of competition in the Greek food industry." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360765.

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Edbauer, Marie-Therese. "The practice of international transfer management: Pluralism and politics in multinational firms." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10042.

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Despite significant academic research over the past two decades into the recruitment and selection of international transferees, this process still remains problematic for organisations. Studies have identified a range of factors human resource departments face in the establishment of efficient and effective mobility management. However, despite this research, organisations continue to struggle in implementing systematic relocation recruitment and selection and align this with the strategic goals of the company. This thesis explores how international transfer recruitment and selection management is enacted as practice in multinational companies. Specifically, the thesis asks how formal policies of international transfer management depart from actual practice, what role the human resource function plays in this process, and how firms seek to balance standardised and more flexible approaches to international transfer management? These questions are addressed by examining international transfer recruitment and selection in two multinational firms, MedTech and FinServ. MedTech is a medical equipment manufacturer with extensive global operations, while the other organisation, FinServ, is a large global professional services firm. First, this thesis explores how both firms have developed formalised policies and practices of international transfer across their global operations, and how such policies and practices are justified by different organisational stakeholders. Second, the thesis examines how the daily practice of international transfer recruitment and selection is enacted in both organisations through reference to the narratives of senior managers, human resource specialists and international transferees themselves. Third, in investigating differences between formal policies of international transfer and the enactment of these policies as practice, the thesis identifies a range of tensions that exist between these three stakeholder groups. These include the tensions of policy-making versus decision-making, policy compliance versus policy avoidance, and business versus individual needs. Overall, the thesis contributes to an improved understanding of international transfer in multinational firms by demonstrating the plurality of actors and interests involved in the practice of international transfer. Rather than a unitary consensus in the enactment of international transfer policy, the thesis finds the practice of international transfer involves dynamics of negotiation, micro-politics, control and resistance. The findings of the thesis also have implications for the role of the human resource function more generally and issues of standardisation versus flexibility in human resource practice.

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Moncayo, Gloria G. (Moncayo Cisneros Gloria Gabriela) 1966. "Knowledge transfer : a critical strategic asset in multinational firms : a corporate view." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9775.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-88).
This thesis examines the effectiveness of Knowledge Integration in a single multinational firm. Knowledge Integration is a concept that includes innovation, transfer and transformation of knowledge and much recent literature suggests that it is a key to competitive succcess, especia!!y within multinational organizations. The core of the thesis is a set of cases or descriptions of knowledge integration projects undertaken within the Beta corporation during the last 4 years. These descriptions were based on structured interviews within several managers within a single multinational company. The cases are then analyzed in order to determine possible causes and effects of the integration of knowledge across geographically dispersed units, with a primary goal of determining how the corporate role c.an contribute to knowledge integration during the development of projects. The framework fer analyzing these cases, based on the Kl literature, includes four different dimensions: Relations within the organizational structure, Organizational culture, Organizational environment, Resources & capabilities. The success of Kl in each project is related to each of these dimensions in order to determine whether its existence within corporate and the business units will produce better outcomes in the projects. Cross analysis of cases between the projects observed showed the patterns to emphasize in the framework of Knowledge Integration. The results of the analysis gave an interesting list of key task that corporate can perform to support Knowledge Integrations and obtain better outcomes in the projects. The ta.,k are: Provide infraestructure, Initiate the process, Structure the process, Motivate participants, Provide resources and Control progress.
by Gloria G. Moncayo.
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Feltrin, Giulia <1989&gt. "Multinational Firms: effects on world economy and influence on the global governance." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4330.

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In questa tesi verrà discusso il ruolo delle multinazionali nel moderno contesto della globalizzazione. Verranno studiati i vari modelli di sviluppo di queste aziende e verranno analizzati il perché e come diventino multinazionali, facendo particolare riferimento all’importanza degli investimenti diretti esteri. Verranno studiate le varie modalità con cui un’azienda può accedere a un mercato estero e verranno fornite alcune determinanti chiave che spingono le aziende verso una scelta piuttosto che un’altra. Si farà inoltre riferimento all’indice di transnazionalità di queste aziende per comprovare quanto effettivamente siano legate o slegate dal proprio contesto nazionale. Ci si soffermerà a considerare l’importanza dell’economia della conoscenza e verrà analizzato l’approccio di Doz-Santos-Williamson sulle aziende metanazionali. In una seconda parte verranno analizzati gli impatti delle aziende multinazionali sul proprio paese d’origine, sulle economie ospitanti e sull’ambiente. Infine si passerà a studiare il rapporto tra multinazionali e stati, osservando quali possono essere le politiche statali in favore o contro gli investimenti diretti esteri. Si vedrà come una collaborazione tra questi due attori sia possibile per raggiungere una migliore governance globale e se ne fornirà una chiave di lettura tramite il lavoro di Khanna e l’idea di creazione di valore condiviso di Porter e Kramer.

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Joyez, Charlie. "Heterogeneous Firms and Foreign Direct Investment Strategies." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLED061/document.

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Cette thèse se propose d’étudier le rôle de l’hétérogénéité des entreprises multinationales dans leurs stratégies d’investissements directs à l’étranger (IDE). Si de précédents travaux soulignent l’importance de la productivité individuelle des entreprises dans le fait de devenir une multinationale, peu évoquent l’hétérogénéité restante entre ces entreprises pour expliquer les différences de choix de mode d’entrée ou de motif d’implantation à l’étranger. A travers des approches théoriques et empiriques innovantes, basées sur l’utilisation de données confidentielles d’entreprises françaises, nous montrons que l’hétérogénéité des entreprises détermine chacun des trois aspects stratégiques détaillés dans cette thèse : Le taux de contrôle à l’étranger, le motif d’implantation et la structure du réseau de filiales. Plus précisément, la productivité et l'expérience de la firme favorisent un contrôle accru des filiales étrangères, leur importance relative dépendant du pays hôte. Ces caractéristiques sont également associées à une intégration plus profonde dans les chaînes de valeur mondiales, ainsi qu’à la constitution d'un réseau d’implantations plus original. Ces résultats permettent une meilleure compréhension des choix des multinationales, au-delà de l’apparente complexité des flux d’IDE
This thesis examines the role of firms´ heterogeneity in the Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) strategies. We already know firms’ heterogeneity to sharply distinguish between domestic firms, exporters and multinationals (MNEs). Yet, to what extent it impacts their foreign direct investments (FDIs) strategies among MNEs is rarely evoked, while several entry mode choices and FDI motives coexist. Mixing both theoretical and empirical innovating approaches using French firm-level data, the four chapters of this PhD dissertation reveal that the firm heterogeneity influences all of the three dimensions of strategies we review: foreign ownership mode, FDI motive and structure of the overall network of affiliates. Specifically, firm-level productivity and international experience foster deeper integration with a changing relative importance according to the host country. They are also associated with production motives and vertical integration into the global value chains. The more productive firms also display original affiliates’ network structure. These findings allow a better understanding of multinationals’ choices underneath the ``complex’’ global picture of FDI flows

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Richter, Katharina Verfasser], and Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] [Spengel. "Research and Development Tax Planning of Multinational Firms / Katharina Richter. Betreuer: Christoph Spengel." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1074102584/34.

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Hebous, Shafik, and Alfons Weichenrieder. "What Do We Know about the Tax Planning of German-Based Multinational Firms?" WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Universität Wien, 2014. http://epub.wu.ac.at/4355/1/SSRN%2Did2521387.pdf.

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Abundant anecdotal evidence is in accord with rigorous research results confirming the existence of various forms of international tax planning by multinational firms. Increasing availability of administrative data for research purposes has enabled researchers to study not only behavioural responses of US-based firms to taxation, but also of European and other multinationals. The present paper summarizes what we can learn from recent studies on tax avoidance strategies by multinational firms in general and by German multinationals in particular. (authors' abstract)
Series: WU International Taxation Research Paper Series

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Yuan, Mei. "Empirical and theoretical studies of product quality and multinational firms in international trade." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3256392.

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An, Yiting. "The impacts of host-country characteristics on cross-industry spillovers from multinational firms." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3273705.

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Ishido, Ishido. "Economic determinants of foreign direct investment by multinational firms : the case of Malaysia." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406304.

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Taha, Yasser. "Technology transfer by multinational firms : the case of the car industry in Egypt." Thesis, Kingston University, 2002. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20705/.

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This dissertation represents an attempt at demonstrating the process of technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries by focusing on the role of the multinational companies in such transfer in the car industry in Egypt. Apart from in-depth discussion of the theoretical issue of technology transfer and multinational firms, this study, based on the Egyptian experience as well as experiences of other countries in the 20[sup]th century, has attempted to criticise traditional technology transfer models by first reinterpreting technologies as knowledge in general and secondly by offering a new model of technology transfer within the context of today's globalised world economy. The thesis charts the history of Egyptian industrialisation from the 19[sup]th century to the late 20[sup]th century. It addresses questions about government policy toward industrialisation, private sector development and general macroeconomic policies of the Egyptian government since the 1950's. The thesis attempts a detailed analysis of the car industry in Egypt in the context of both national aspiration and the role of multinational companies in the transfer of technology in the car industry in Egypt. The thesis offers insights both on the practical intricacies of the technology transfer process and the theoretical aspects of this process.

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Richter, Katharina [Verfasser], and Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Spengel. "Research and Development Tax Planning of Multinational Firms / Katharina Richter. Betreuer: Christoph Spengel." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-389865.

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Raboch, Henrique. "The Internationalization of Multinational Companies : An intra-sector comparison among firms from developing and developed countries." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-3812.

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The recent emergence of Multinational Companies (MNCs) from developing countries as players of major role inside their industry has led the academic agenda to dedicate a lot of efforts on better understand the internationalization particularities of companies from this kind. This research aims on contributing to the already existent theoretical bodywork by highlighting the differences between firms from developed and developing countries by performing a cross-country comparison between two firms from the same industry: a Brazilian company, which will be called Beta due to confidentiality issues, and a Swedish company, which will be named Alpha. Although being joint-managed by Swedish and Swiss assets, this study focus on the Swedish part of the society, which is constituted by the firm which will be named Gamma. Both companies operate on the electric motors, power and automation technologies segment. The theoretical framework used was built under traditional International Business theories, such as the Nordic Research School in International Business and the Eclectic Paradigm. The method used constituted in a multiple case-study and data were collected from companies’ reports as well as other publications, and primary data were collected by applying a questionnaire with both firms. Results highlight how the self-experience was more important for Beta while partnerships affected more the case of Alpha. Different ownership advantages structures held each firm point out that the developed country MNC enjoys greater brand equity, making the developing country firm to provide adapted solutions to its customers in order to compete in the market. The orientation on seeking for localization advantages can be described as an extent as their capacities developed in the home market, and the drivers for producing abroad are similar among the firms.

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Duanmu, Jing-Lin. "Vertical knowledge transfer from multinational enterprises (MNEs) to Chinese supplier firms : an explorative study." Thesis, University of Bath, 2006. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512324.

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Renzi, Loredana. "The impact of multinational corporations on the South African economy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22823.

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According to Saville (1993), the economic growth of less developed countries is impeded due to the presence of four “gaps” in these economies. However, Saville (1993), states that, by filling these gaps, developing economies are able to achieve economic growth and development. The main objective of this research is to update the study of Saville (1993) in order to determine the impact of the multinational corporation on the host economy in reference to the drivers of exogenous and endogenous growth in contribution to filling these gaps.This is a quantitative study which makes use of secondary data obtained from JSE listed firms operating in the mining sector in South Africa. Statistical regression analysis was conducted and results are compared to the previous Saville (1993) study.In summary, the results of the study are mixed however in terms of informing government policy, this study confirms the importance of FDI in emerging markets. The caveat however, firstly, is to inform policy to attract the right kinds of FDI to contribute to filling specific gaps in to achieve the required economic growth. Secondly, policy should require collaboration between MNC’s, private firms as well as public sector firms in order to share knowledge and profits in having a positive effect on social welfare and economic growth in the domestic economy.
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
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Uzer, Emre, and Sinan Zeki Tüzün. "Experience or Native Managers? : Acquisition of institutional knowledge: a study of high performing multinational manufacturing firms in Turkey." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-71054.

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Foreign direct investments that come with globalization bring benefits with them if opportunities are handled in the best manner. One opportunity rises with the institutional difference issue. Different countries have different institutional profiles. Institutional profiles briefly include culture, social norms or governmental regulations. When investing abroad, the bigger the institutional difference gets between the home country and the host country, the harder it gets to acquire the local institutional knowledge. This may result in a negative effect in the firm performance. To make the right decisions managers, being an important part of the decision making process, are required to have a profound understanding and knowledge of the local institutional environment. In here the investing companies have two options; either to use local managers or to acquire knowledge through the accumulation of experience. Building on the institutional theory, sixteen multinational companies operating in the manufacturing industry in Turkey are analyzed with the aim to contribute to the understanding of whether native managers or company experience is creating a better firm performance in consideration with handling the institutional differences. The results of this study point out that, the manager origin indeed influence the firm performance and native managers have a positive effect on the firm performance.

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