Climbing the Rungs of the Quality Ladder: FDI and Domestic Exporters in Romania

Bajgar, Matej; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska

doi:10.1093/ej/ueaa003

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“…While very high levels of competition might be detrimental for firms' productivity and innovation orientation (Aghion et al, 2005), most markets and niches exhibit a positive relationship between the degree of market competition and innovation as a result of unlocking creative and entrepreneurial forces (Zehra and Garvis, 2000;Krammer, 2009) as well as a tighter coupling between firm structure and strategies (Burton and Obel, 2018), and in this case, HR policies and innovation strategy (Brusoni and Prencipe, 2013). In particular, the nature of competition from foreign-produced goods and services faced by firms shifts their focus from price considerations to technological sophistication and quality rationales (Fan et al, 2015;Bajgar and Javorcik, 2020). Subsequently, competitive environments (particularly from imported foreign products that usually have an technological edge) can trigger significant reactions from firms in terms of HRM and innovation strategies (Nocco et al, 2019;Traiberman, 2019).…”

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Human resource policies and firm innovation: The moderating effects of economic and institutional context

Krammer

2022

Technovation

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This paper examines the effects of human resource (HR) policies on firm innovation. Specifically, we argue that firms who implement policies to stimulate job autonomy and performance-based pay will be more likely to innovate, as proxied by investments in R&D. In addition, we contend that the institutional (i.e., labour regulations) and competitive (i.e., pressure from imports) contexts in which a firm operates will affect the relationship between HR policies and innovation, albeit in different ways. We test these hypotheses using a dataset of more than 900 firms across a heterogenous set of 12 countries, majority of which are emerging markets. We find strong empirical backing for the role of both job autonomy and performance-based pay policies in stimulating firm innovation, and partial support for the moderating effects of institutional and competitive contexts of this relationship.

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Section: The Role Of the Competitive Environmentmentioning

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Human resource policies and firm innovation: The moderating effects of economic and institutional context

Krammer

2022

Technovation

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“…Today, a large part of Mozambique's metal sector stems from SMEs in Mozal's supplier network (Sutton et al 2014). The literature on FDI highlights that such linkages may facilitate learning spillovers and technology transfers, with the potential to help local firms develop export capabilities in other parts of the metal sector (Bajgar and Javorcik 2020;Eck and Huber 2016;Javorcik 2004;Javorcik et al 2018;Moran 2007;Newman et al 2015;Sørensen 2020).…”

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Economic complexity and structural transformation: the case of Mozambique

Sørensen¹,

Estmann²,

Sarmento³

et al. 2020

WIDER Working Paper

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Mozambique is among the world’s least complex economies. By systematically accounting for both supply- and demand-side factors, we identify new products and sectors that can help to diversify and upgrade its economy. In a supply-side analysis, we use network methods from the literature on economic complexity to identify a set of target products that are complex, require productive capabilities useful in the export of other products, and are close to Mozambique’s existing productive structure. In a demand-side analysis, we use gravity models to predict the export potential of target products and markets given product-specific trade resistance and geographically dispersed demand. The broad sectoral focus of Mozambique’s industrial policy is largely consistent with structural transformation and export promotion. The current prioritization of agriculture, agro-industry, and metals is especially important, while there are unexploited opportunities in machinery, vehicles, and transport equipment. We find some potential for Mozambique to export target products to neighbouring countries.

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“…This might not capture other spillover effects such as those created between MNEs and their suppliers. Javorcik (), Bajgar and Javorcik () investigate the correlation between productivity of domestic firms and the presence of multinationals in downstream sectors. She finds positive productivity spillovers from FDI between foreign affiliates and their local suppliers but no evidence of externalities within the same industry.…”

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Regional Integration and Poverty: A Review of the Transmission Channels and the Evidence

Martuscelli

Gasiorek

2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

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While there is an extensive literature on the impact of regional trading agreements on trade and capital flows, as well as on the relationship between international trade, growth, and poverty there is comparatively little treatment of the possible linkages between regional integration and poverty. We analyze the channels through which regional integration could impact on poverty, and then review the existing evidence on the impact of regional integration on poverty. We focus on two key characteristics that make any regional integration process different from unilateral and multilateral liberalization: first, the asymmetric nature of the liberalization process; second, the scope or ambition of the regional liberalization being undertaken and the nature of the institutional arrangements that are put into place to manage the process of regional integration. We also distinguish between short, medium, and long run effects on poverty of regional integration processes. There is some direct evidence explicitly linking regional integration and poverty, but in good part the shedding of the light depends on an indirect literature on trade, FDI, migration, and inequality.

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Climbing the Rungs of the Quality Ladder: FDI and Domestic Exporters in Romania

Cited by 35 publications

References 46 publications

Human resource policies and firm innovation: The moderating effects of economic and institutional context

Human resource policies and firm innovation: The moderating effects of economic and institutional context

Economic complexity and structural transformation: the case of Mozambique

Regional Integration and Poverty: A Review of the Transmission Channels and the Evidence

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