Multinational Firms in the World Economy

By Jeffrey A. Hart. 2007

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Global Value Chains and Technological Capabilities: A Framework to Study Learning and Innovation in Developing Countries (2008, background): “…line of research exploring the international sources of development—e.g. learning by exporting, foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover (Barba Navaretti & Venables, 2004)—the global value chain ISSN 1360-0818 print/ISSN 1469-9966 online/08/010039-20 q 2008 International Development Centre,…”
Productivity Effects of Outsourcing - New evidence on the strategic importance of vertical integration decisions (2009, background): “…added (total turnover minus total inputs of purchased parts, materials, operations and services) per employee", and a higher import quota might enable a company to source at least commodities to a lower price level from low-wage countries (e.g. Barba Navaretti and Venables, 2004; Olsen, 2006).”
How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy (2006, positive): “Here we extend Barba Navaretti and Castellani (2003) work on the effect of outward investments on home activities for a sample of Italian firms.”
A comparative political economy of diversified business groups, or how states organize big business (2009, background): “Among developed countries, MNCs are rare in Japan, where they account for only 2% of sales, but more common in the US and large countries of Europe where their sales range from 11% in Germany to 32% in France (Barba Navaretti and Venables, 2004: 5).”
Does the Single Currency Affect Foreign Direct Investment (2011, background): “This is in line with the evidence that FDI goes predominantly to advanced and large host countries (Barba-Navaretti and Venables, 2004).”
FDI and the relevance of spatial linkages: do third-country effects matter for Dutch FDI? (2009, positive): “In recent years, the theoretical and empirical research on the causes and consequences of FDI has been booming (see Markusen, 2002; Barba Navaretti and Venables, 2004; Helpman, 2006).”
Global Value Chains Meet Innovation Systems : Are There Learning Opportunities for Developing Countries? (2010, background): “…and its subsidiaries, and implies various potential learning mechanisms analyzed in the literature on foreign direct investment in LDCs, such as transfer of management, skilled labor turnover, training of the local workforce, knowledge spillovers, and imitation (Barba Navaretti & Venables, 2004).”
Multinationals in the Czech Motor Vehicles Industry: A General Equilibrium Analysis for a Transition Economy (2011, background): “Capital is modelled as a specific factor in order to proxy the frequent conclusion in the literature that MNEs have some ‘specific assets’ and ‘ownership advantages’, compared to national firms (Hymer 1976; Barba Navaretti & Venables 2004; Markusen 1995, 2002; Helpman 2006).”
The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms (2010, background): “Navaretti and Venables (2004) survey results by this type of work, which dominantly concludes to the small magnitude of the employment effects in particular.”
Dyadic military conflict, security alliances, and bilateral FDI flows (2010, background): “Testing these distinctions accurately and directly is difficult, because of serious problems in obtaining and classifying FDI data (Navaretti & Venables, 2004: 31).”
FDI, Productivity and Financial Development (2009, background): “See Blomström and Kokko (1998), Görg and Greenaway (2004), Lipsey (2002), Barba-Navaretti and Venables (2004), and Alfaro and Rodríguez (2004) for surveys of spillover channels and empirical findings.”
Gifted kids or pushy parents? Foreign acquisitions and plant performance in Indonesia (2005, neutral): “Surveying the empirical literature, Barba Navaretti et al. (2004, Chapter 7.3) stress that much of the available empirical evidence “supports a statistical association between foreign ownership and productivity, but not a causal link.” They further report that in those studies where a more careful a”
What goes around, comes around: Effects of offshore outsourcing on the export performance of firms (2011, background): “While MNEs appear to be larger on average than non-MNEs, not all MNEs are giant corporations (e.g., Navaretti & Venables, 2004).”