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Author(s): Sjoerd Beugelsdijk; Davide Sala; Steven Brakman; Hans van Ees; Harry Garretsen; Alan M. Rugman; Quyen T. K. Nguyen; Filomena Pietrovito; Alberto Franco Pozzolo; Luca Salvatici
ISBN(s): 9780262314473, 0262314479
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Year: 2013
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ISBN 10: 0262314479 

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Author: Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Hans van Ees, Harry Garretsen 

Essays by leading scholars suggest that insights from international business could enrich firm heterogeneity research in international economics.

Despite their common roots, international economics (IE) and international business (IB) have developed into two distinct fields of study. Economists have directed their efforts at formalizing the workings of international trade and investment at the macroeconomic level; business scholars have relied more on data-driven conceptual narratives than mathematical tools. But the recent focus of IE literature on firm heterogeneity suggests that IE would benefit from IB analyses of the behavior and organization of the internationalizing firm. The contributions to this volume investigate ways that insights from IB can enrich IE research in firm heterogeneity.

The contributors discuss firm-specific advantages in international trade and investment, considering the firm as the unit of analysis and managerial inputs as a variable in market entry decisions; analyze interactions between a firm and its external environment, including local corporate philanthropy and institutional settings; examine the boundaries of the firm and organizational choices such as the make-or-buy decision; and investigate technology transfer and innovation offshoring, discussing the role of subsidiaries, inventor employment, and other related topics.

Although IE and IB look at international firms from different perspectives, these contributions make it clear that there is a potential for a productive exchange of insights and information between the two disciplines.

Table of contents:

I Firm-Specific Advantages
1 International Business Theory for International Economists
2 Exports versus Foreign Direct Investments: Evidence from Cross-Country Industry Data
3 Managerial Characteristics and the Export Decision of Firms

II Firm-Environment Interaction
4 Foreign Firms and Local Communities
5 Institutional Quality and FDI to the South
6 Heterogeneous Export Spillovers to Chinese Domestic Firms: The Role of the Difficulty to Enter the Destination Market

III Boundaries of the Firm
7 Intrafirm and Armʹs-Length Trade: How Distance Matters
8 Make or Buy: On the Organizational Structure of Firms with Asymmetric Suppliers
9 Global Value Chains during the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect?

IV Innovation and Technology Transfer
10 Multinationalsʹ Technology Transfers and Firmsʹ Performance
11 Innovation Offshoring and Inventor Substitution
12 Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

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