Industrial dependence and technological underdevelopment: Canadian consequences of foreign direct investment

Britton, John N. H.

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“…In the context of manufacturing, it means that peripheral externally controlled branch plants typically specialize in the high-volume manufacturing while having very limited nonproduction functions. Such truncated branch plants have limited regional development benefits for their host regions and, in the long run, might contribute to technological underdevelopment of host economies (Britton, 1980;Hayter, 1982). In the automotive industry, this continues to be the case despite its reorganization of production and supplier relations in the 1980s and 1990s (Sheard, 1983;Womack et al, 1990), which allowed some peripheral branch plants to acquire nonproduction functions and upgrade into ''performance/networked branch plants' ' (Amin et al, 1994;Dawley, 2011;Phelps, 1993;Pike, 1998).…”

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Value creation and value capture in the automotive industry: Empirical evidence from Czechia

Pavlínek

Ženka

2015

Environ Plan A

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This article investigates how distinct tiers of firms contribute to value creation and value capture in the automotive industry. We employ firm-level indicators to evaluate the value creation and capture of distinct supplier tiers in the Czech automotive industry, while considering differences between foreign-owned and domestic firms. Our analysis suggests that the economic effects of the automotive industry largely depend on its capital intensity and that mostly foreign-owned higher tier firms generate and capture greater value than lower tier firms, which include the vast majority of domestic suppliers.

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Value creation and value capture in the automotive industry: Empirical evidence from Czechia

Pavlínek

Ženka

2015

Environ Plan A

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“…In these circumstances, the pattern of E U transactions SERVAN-S CH R E I BE R, 1968) and in Canada (see BR IT TO N , 1980;LORCH, 1981). By the 1980s the is of particular interest.…”

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Mergers/Acquisitions and Restructuring in the EU Chemical Industry: Patterns and Implications

Chapman

Edmond

2000

Regional Studies

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CHAPMAN K. and EDMOND H. (2000) Mergers/acquisitions and restructuring in the EU chemical industry: patterns and implications, Reg. Studies 34, 753-767. High levels of merger/acquisition activity, especially international transactions, have been a characteristic of the global economy since the mid - 1980s. A significant proportion of this activity has been focused on the EU where it has been stimulated by economic integration. Research into the phenomenon has been limited by data availability. Information from a Royal Society of Chemistry database is used to examine mergers/acquisitions in the European chemical industry. This is a key sector of the European economy which has accounted for a substantial proportion of mergers/ acquisitions in manufacturing. Attention is focused upon an important period of change immediately before and after the creation of the Single European Market (i.e. 1986-95). The connections between mergers/acquisitions, corporate restructuring and industry restructuring are explored together with implications for the changing geography of the EU production system. Mergers/acquisitions are both a symptom and, more importantly, a cause of accelerated change in this system as they facilitate the transformation of corporate identities. Some of the wider consequences of such transformations are addressed by exploring the geographical pattern of cross - border mergers/acquisitions in the EU chemical industry. A systematic transfer of corporate control is demonstrated as companies based in northern Europe have acquired those based in southern Europe. Reasons for this pattern are identified together with implications of post - merger/acquisition restructuring for places and, more generally, for economic and social cohesion within the EU. The need for more detailed empirical studies of corporate restructuring is stressed. CHAPMAN K. et EDMOND H. (2000) Fusions/acquisitions et restructuration de l'industrie chimique dans l'Ue: tendances et retombées, Reg. Studies 34, 753-767. Depuis le milieu des années 1980, l'économie mondiale se caractérise par de nombreuses fusions/acquisitions, surtout des opérations internationales. Encouragée par l'intégration économique, une proportion non-négligeable de ces opérations s'est focalisée sur l'Ue. La disponibilité des données limite la recherche sur ce phénomène. A partir d'une base de données provenant de l'Académie de chimie (Royal Society of Chemistry), on examine les fusions/acquisitions dans l'industrie chimique europénne. C'est un secteur-clé de l'économie européenne qui a assuré une proportion considérable des fusions/acquisitions industrielles. On attire l'attention sur une période transitoire, juste avant et après le moment où le marché unique européen arrive à échéance (à savoir, de 1986 à 1995). Les liens entre les fusions/acquisitions, la restructuration d'entreprise et la restructuration industrielle se voient examiner conjointement avec leurs retombées éventuelles sur la géographie du système de production européen en pleine évolution. Les fusions/a...

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“…The second is the need to avoid isolation from assured markets, especially when a world industry and its markets may be in the hands of a very few companies, as is the case in the mining industry. A third factor, hard to quantify, is a possible need for foreign expertise, while a fourth factor is improved access to technology (JOHNSON, 1975;BRITTON, 1980). Finally there is the factor of the revenue that can be had from foreign investment in the form of licences and, most particularly, taxation.…”

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British capital overseas: Direct investment and corporate development in Australia

Taylor

Thrift

1981

Regional Studies

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Industrial dependence and technological underdevelopment: Canadian consequences of foreign direct investment

Cited by 49 publications

References 3 publications

Value creation and value capture in the automotive industry: Empirical evidence from Czechia

Value creation and value capture in the automotive industry: Empirical evidence from Czechia

Mergers/Acquisitions and Restructuring in the EU Chemical Industry: Patterns and Implications

British capital overseas: Direct investment and corporate development in Australia

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