Comparative Behavior of Foreign and Domestic Export Firms in a Developing Economy

Cohen, Benjamin I.

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“…The IEE survey also includes information on plants' expenditure on intermediate inputs and breaks this down into domestically sourced and imported intermediates, and we use this information to calculate our measure of local sourcing. More precisely, we calculate a linkage indicator as the percentage of inputs sourced locally (see, e.g., Görg and Ruane 2000; Kennedy 1991; Cohen 1973). Table 1 shows the development of total backward linkages in 1983 and 1998, respectively, by NACE 2‐digit industry.…”

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Multinational companies, backward linkages, and labour demand elasticities

Görg

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Strobl

et al. 2009

Canadian J of Economics

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Multinational companies, backward linkages, and labour demand elasticities

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Henry

Strobl

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Canadian J of Economics

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“…Keay, 2000;Diewert and Nakamura, 1998;Hall and Jones, 1999), export propensity (e.g. Cohen, 1973) and technology (e.g. Nelson, 1991).…”

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How Domestic and Foreign Firms Differ and Why Does it Matter?

Bellak

2004

Journal of Economic Surveys

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. This paper reviews and summarises the results of selected studies on performance gaps between multinational enterprises and their domestic counterparts. Performance gaps arise in such fields as productivity, technology, profitability, wages, skills and growth. While these gaps are often attributed to foreign ownership of the affiliates, the theory of the Multinational Enterprise argues that these gaps are due to being a Multinational rather than the nationality of the firm. Empirical evidence on the existence of performance gaps between foreign and domestic firms is supportive of this view: foreign ownership turns out to be a much less important explanatory factor than normally assumed. Firm‐specific assets and firm characteristics like industry, size, parent country and multinationality per se are more important. Such results are broadly consistent with those derived in the literatures on ownership change, on foreign entry and on spillovers. We conclude that there is little case for foreign direct investment promotion policies to discriminate between firms on the basis of ownership.

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“…In the South Korean textile and clothing industry, for example, exports began growing well before foreign investment became important to their expansion [Westphal, Rhee and Pursell, 1979]. This also seems to have been the case in a number of other industries in South Korea [Cohen, 1973]. Thus, where foreign firms export a higher proportion of their output Mason (1973) Cohen (1975) Cohen (1975) Cohen (1975) Riedel (1975) Biersteker (1978 * Difference significant at 5 per cent level than local firms, this may simply reflect the fact that foreign investment was only permitted where a large share of output was destined for foreign markets.…”

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Comparing foreign subsidiaries and local firms in LDCS: Theoretical issues and empirical evidence

Jenkins

1990

Journal of Development Studies

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The article reviews the empirical evidence on the comparative behaviour of foreign subsidiaries and locally-owned firms in four main areas which have a bearing on development: technology, marketing, foreign trade and wages. It is argued that the conventional cross-section analysis of the behaviour of the different types of firm is a poor guide to the impact of foreign investment on host countries, and that longitudinal industry studies are a more fruitful approach for future research.

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Comparative Behavior of Foreign and Domestic Export Firms in a Developing Economy

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Multinational companies, backward linkages, and labour demand elasticities

Multinational companies, backward linkages, and labour demand elasticities

How Domestic and Foreign Firms Differ and Why Does it Matter?

Comparing foreign subsidiaries and local firms in LDCS: Theoretical issues and empirical evidence

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