Productivity Effects of Foreign Acquisitions in Swedish Manufacturing: The FDI Productivity Issue Revisited

Karpaty, Patrik

doi:10.1080/13571510701344038

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“…They argue that the reason for this productivity di¤erence is that US multinationals export their organizational capital also to their foreign a¢ liates. Similar results have been documented for Swedish …rms; Karpaty (2007) …nds an increase of 3-11% in productivity from foreign acquisitions on Swedish …rms (1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002).…”

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Effects of Organizational Change on Firm Productivity

Håkanson

2009

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract An increasing use of IT facilitates …rms to use more e¢ cient organizational forms. Signi…cant reorganizations of business processes around IT capital can thereby boost productivity growth. The aim of this study is to empirically examine how …rm productivity growth is a¤ected by organizational changes and investments in IT using a Di¤erence-in-Di¤erence approach on a panel of Swedish …rms over the years [1997][1998][1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005]. The empirical results show a positive and signi…cant e¤ect on total factor productivity growth for …rms that invested above median in IT and at the same time undertook organizational changes. Terms of use: Documents in

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confidence: 69%

Effects of Organizational Change on Firm Productivity

Håkanson

2009

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“…In a study of Indonesia, Arnold and Smarzynska (2005) include controls for skill intensity and company history (age). Karpaty (2007) on acquisitions in Sweden includes controls for R&D intensity and region of the firm. Instead of structural variables such as industry and region some studies operate with a firm specific effect see e.g.…”

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Pay More, Earn Less, Work Harder - New Evidence of Foreign Subsidiary Performance and Market Efficiency in Emerging Markets

Jensen

2009

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Earn Less, Terms of use: Documents in 2The CASE Network is a group of economic and social research centers in Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Belarus. Organizations in the network regularly conduct joint research and advisory projects. The research covers a wide spectrum of economic and social issues, including economic effects of the European integration process, economic relations between the EU and CIS, monetary policy and euro-accession, innovation and competitiveness, and labour markets and social policy. The network aims to increase the range and quality of economic research and information available to policymakers and civil society, and takes an active role in on-going debates on how to meet the economic challenges facing the EU, post-transition countries and the global economy.

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“…5; that US companies export their organisational structures to subsidiaries in other countries (see Bloom, Sardun, & van Reenen, 2007). Evidence of similar positive effects has been found in Sweden (see Karpaty, 2007).…”

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Growth of ICT Capital and Deceleration of Labour Productivity in the EU Countries: The Missing Links

Biswas¹,

Baptista²

2012

CIS

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Labour productivity in most of the EU countries grew much slower than in US over the last one and a half decades and the difference is attributed to the difference in the use of ICT. Analysing EU KLEMS database (capital (K), labour (L), energy (E), material (M) and service inputs (S)) and Eurostat database it is noted that the micro and small enterprises, numerically predominant in the EU countries, use much less amount of ICT. With very low proportion of enterprises with ICT installation, with less sophisticated technology and probably with the lowest amount of ICT capital, these enterprises employ relatively larger proportion of workers who use ICTs. The larger enterprises on the other hand with more sophisticated and larger quantity ICT capital employ fewer workers who handle this technology. An implication of this is the fast growth of productivity of selected highly ICT skilled workers of the larger enterprises leaving rest of the workforce to benefit least from the technology. It is obvious under this situation that the overall productivity growth of the workers would be stunted.

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Productivity Effects of Foreign Acquisitions in Swedish Manufacturing: The FDI Productivity Issue Revisited

Cited by 46 publications

References 27 publications

Effects of Organizational Change on Firm Productivity

Effects of Organizational Change on Firm Productivity

Pay More, Earn Less, Work Harder - New Evidence of Foreign Subsidiary Performance and Market Efficiency in Emerging Markets

Growth of ICT Capital and Deceleration of Labour Productivity in the EU Countries: The Missing Links

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