[PDF] Top 20 Firm's characteristics, public support and foreign direct investment

... scale and often firms’ potential ...costs, and the availability of and access to ...risk and uncertainty associated with foreign operations, a large resource base and easy access ... See full document

... manufacturing, and service ...ef and fdi-growth interactions (even the few ones that have been conducted are done for other regions)7 we are yet unaware of any study that has speciically examined ef ... See full document

... growth and thus may facilitate the ability of the State […] to finance certain public goods […], while at the same time negatively affecting the State´s capacity to protect the rights of certain ... See full document

... the direct effects of policy upon the firms’ sources of competitive advantage, and detaches the indirect effects of policy upon different modes of entry in foreign ...FDI and, its ... See full document

... other firm-level variables, such as innovative capacity, productivity, family and foreign ownership, and lo- cation, are bound to affect the perceived importance of public ... See full document

... (1977) and his so-called eclectic paradigm of international production is based in three components, ownership (O), location (L) and internalization (I), and so it can be named ...to ... See full document

... lends support to the theory of the firm that was earlier discussed by Coarse ...firms and due to market failures, suggested that firm’s efficiency would be possible if some of its specific functions ... See full document

... to support and promote economic and social cohesion in Portugal, showing a strong alignment with Europe’s 2020 Strategy, whose strategic priorities are growth, sustainable growth and inclusive ... See full document

... Buckley and Casson (1976) moved the discussion in yet another direction by proposing what has is now known as internalisation theory through their study of why large firms internalize business operations outside ... See full document

... 19 and up to double the tax rate of land, for non used land and agricultural parcels 20 ...exemptions and reduced rates for specific industries or for pre defined values of the firm’s turnover, yet ... See full document

... commodities, and large FDI inflows, which caused an increase in international ...financing and increased propensity of the U.S. and rich countries reduce their trade deficits and their ... See full document

... of public inputs (infrastructure) which, in turn, decreases a country’s locational attractiveness (Bardhan, 1997; Rose-Ackermann, 1999; Lambsdorff, ...a foreign plant (Lui, 1985), and (ii) to gain ... See full document

... home and host country ...rules and culture, and they influence how a firm operates outside the boundaries of its country of origin (Meyer Thein, ...drivers and constraints of a firm's ... See full document

... categories: firm specific (firm level) activities or headquarters, such as research and development (R&D), publicity, marketing, distribution, administration services, ...etc., and plant ... See full document

... rules and mechanisms that allows the protection of business activity, several studies addressed the absence of such ...uncertainty and transaction costs issues (Brouthers et al, 2002; Delios and ... See full document

... Borini and Bernardes (2014), the few studies on accelerated internationalization are quite ...drivers and this compromises both internal and external factors (Zahra and George, 2002; Knight ... See full document

... term foreign debt in the total foreign debt from ...goods and services at the end of 2014, which favoured a stable exchange rate for the RON / EUR, with a significant contribution to lowering the ... See full document

... easily and effectively funding sources with ...exchange and cooperation between companies, including foreign firms with domestic ...development and FDI flows to developing ...Dutta and ... See full document

... residuals and the Herfindhal spatial concentration ...similar and all significantly different from ...(3) and (4), where no attention to the sectoral component is given, part of the residuals ... See full document

... In a model of two open economies with intertemporaloptimization, we characterize optimal paths toward convergence anti show that the richer country achieves higher utility than it wo[r] ... See full document