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The Impact of Cultural Intelligence on Communication Effectiveness, Job Satisfaction and Anxiety for Chinese Host Country Managers Working for Foreign Multinationals

Bücker, Joost J.L.E. ; Furrer, Olivier ; Poutsma, Erik ; Buyens, Dirk

In: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2014, vol. 25, no. 14, p. 2068-2087

Cultural intelligence (CQ) is an important construct attracting growing attention in academic literature and describing cross-cultural competencies. To date, researchers have only partially tested the relationship between CQ and its dependent variables, such as performance. In this study, the relationship between CQ and communication effectiveness and job satisfaction is measured in a sample...

Université de Fribourg

Recent Policy Developments Regarding Foreign Investment

Gugler, Philippe

In: Información Comercial Española, 2019, no. 909, p. 23-35

This contribution identifies the main recent patterns affecting the international investment policy landscape. It reflects the main developments and challenges that call for reforms at national and international levels and comprises three parts. The first part is dedicated to national investment policies promoting or restricting international investments. The second covers the developments...

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Regional and Global Strategies of MNEs : Revisiting Rugman & Verbeke (2004)

Rosa, Benjamin ; Gugler, Philippe ; Verbeke, Alain

In: Journal of International Business Studies, 2020, vol. 51, p. 1045-1053

We describe the extent to which the world’s largest companies (in terms of revenues), achieve sales around the globe, and have been able to penetrate markets outside of their home region. We try to answer the following question: Has there been a recent increase in the world’s largest firms achieving a global sales orientation, meaning a balanced, global distribution of sales? Rugman &...

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The Role of Clusters in the Global Innovation Strategy of MNEs : Theoretical Foundations and Evidence from the Basel Pharmaceutical Cluster

Gugler, Philippe ; Keller, Michael ; Tinguely, Xavier

In: Competitiveness Review, 2015, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 324-340

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on the role of clusters as home and host country- specific advantages for multinational enterprises (“MNEs”) in the organization of their internal and external networks to optimize the diffusion and generation of new knowledge. Strategic asset-seeking investment has been a major driver of the internalization of innovation activities performed by MNEs...

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Technology-Sourcing Investment Abroad as an Enhancer of Chinese MNEs’ Innovative Capabilities

Gugler, Philippe ; Vanoli, Laura

In: International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2015, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 243-271

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on Chinese firms’ innovation processes that are induced by foreign direct investment abroad. The study uses a patent and citation analysis to examine the extent to which investments abroad contribute to enhancing these firms’ innovative capabilities. More specifically, this study focusses on the role of foreign location competitiveness as...

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A Simple Model of Corporate Bailouts in a Globalized Economy

Exbrayat, Nelly ; Madiès, Thierry ; Riou, Stéphane

In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, vol. 122, no. 4, p. 1575-1605

This paper explores how globalization influences the decision of governments to rescue inefficient domestic firms when bailouts affect firms’ markups. We develop a model of international trade where immobile domestic enterprises (DOEs) compete with foreign enterprises (FOEs) in an oligopolistic market. The decision to bail out DOEs leads to lower corporate tax revenues if FOEs are immobile...

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Sources of productivity spillovers: panel data evidence from China

Baltagi, Badi ; Egger, Peter ; Kesina, Michaela

In: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2015, vol. 43, no. 3, p. 389-402

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The Home Bias in Sovereign Ratings

Fuchs, Andreas ; Gehring, Kai

In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 1386-1423

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Missing Investment Treaties

Polanco Lazo, Rodrigo ; Desilvestro, Valentino ; Bazrafkan, Azernoosh

In: Journal of International Economic Law, 2018, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 703-731