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- Falk, Martin, et al.
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Complementarity of R&D and productivity in SME export behavior
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Research. - : ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. - 0148-2963 .- 1873-7978. ; 96, s. 157-168
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the link between export behavior, labor productivity and R&D activities in 17,168 small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) in Austria, during the period 1995-2011. The analysis covers six subgroups of SMEs: young, old, micro, born global, manufacturing, and services. Using a two-part model controlling for firm effects, the results show that both the export participation and the export share of SMEs depend significantly and positively on the level of labor productivity (relative to that of large firms in the same industry) and the R&D-sales ratio. Another important finding is that labor productivity strengthens the relationship between R&D activities and exports. Marginal effects show a large degree of heterogeneity in the relationships across the six subgroups of SMEs. The link between R&D and export behavior, for a given level of labor productivity, is relatively pronounced for manufacturing SMEs, larger and older SMEs, while the other sub-groups are less affected.
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- Figueira de Lemos, Francisco, 1968-
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A Political View on the Internationalization Process
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The role of governments in the internationalization of the firm had early recognition in prominent seminal studies in international business, such as Hymer’s thesis or the Uppsala Model, though the interaction between multinationals and governments has attracted scarce attention. As such, the main stream of economics and management studies have focused on internationalization essentially as an issue of the firm, wherein the multinationals’ interaction with the environment is limited to a business-industrial scope of suppliers, clients, and competitors.In a different direction, this thesis includes the political setting and studies the beneficial side of governments in the internationalization process of the firm. With this purpose, the present dissertation proposes a conceptual framework based on Johanson and Vahlne’s (1977) internationalization process model, complemented with Williamson’s (1975) Transaction Costs Economics, and encompassed by conceptual insights from institutional studies related to international business. Specifically, the role of governments in the internationalization process is examined through the variances of the relation between knowledge and commitment at the micro, meso, and macro level.The structure of the thesis reflects the multilevel approach, integrating one conceptual and three empirical papers, each of which dealing with a particular level of analysis. Through the aggregation of each paper’s intrinsic contribution, the dissertation’s summary offers a wide view on the internationalization phenomena, adding the political elements to the industrial-business elements of the environment. Overall, internationalization is conceptualized as a process of interaction with the business environment, whereas the public nature of political elements induces the compromise of combining activities between firms and governments. Evidence gives the ground to conclude that internationalization is not a game played just between firms, or, even, between firms and markets, but also with and within governments.
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- Figueira de Lemos, Francisco, 1968-, et al.
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Internationalization Processes in Stable and Unstable Market Conditions : Towards a model of commitment decisions in dynamic environments
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Ingår i: Journal of World Business. - : Elsevier BV. - 1090-9516 .- 1878-5573. ; 49:3, s. 332-349
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article proposes a managerial decision framework to deal with internationalization whether in stable or dynamic environments. While displaying the effects of unstable and stable environmental settings on commitment decisions, the framework is the result of an inferential abductive approach that merges the risk management model with empirical data collected from a 32-year longitudinal case study on nine Swedish MNCs. The longitudinal analysis shows that when environmental changes are perceived as detrimental, firms tend to decrease their tangible assets and commit in a more intangible way. On the opposite, when changes to the environment are perceived as beneficial, firms follow an incremental path of commitment, preferably in tangible kind. The findings contribute new knowledge to understand such diversities in commitment decisions as divestment, wait-and-see, market-exit and re-entry.
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- Popli, Manish, et al.
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Reusing Uppsala lens in cross-border M&As of emerging markets
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Ingår i: Strategic Change. - : JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD. - 1086-1718 .- 1099-1697. ; 27:1, s. 35-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Risk can be assessed and managed by acquirers from emerging markets in their international acquisitions by evoking the role of commitment as outlined in the original Uppsala model. It is proposed that commitment may be maneuvered depending on the motive, industry context, and the prior experience of the acquirer from incountry joint-ventures for incumbent firms.
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