The paper analyzes the effects of a source-based capital income tax on production and market structures, trade and capital flows as well as national and global welfare. The analysis is carried by means of a general equilibrium model of trade which incorporates international capital flows as well as the existence of multinational enterprises. The focus of the paper is on identifying the influenc...

This paper studies the link between production transfer within Swedish-headquartered multinational enterprises (MNEs) and skill upgrading in Swedish manufacturing MNE parents in the 1990s. The analysis distinguishes between horizontal and vertical foreign direct investment (FDI). The increased employment share in the affiliates in non-OECD countries (vertical FDI) has a non-trivial, significant...

This study investigates how foreign subsidiaries gain attention from corporate headquarters. Using detailed questionnaire and archival data on 283 subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, our analysis revealed three significant findings. First, attention decisions are partially based on the structural positions that subsidiary units occupy within a corporate system—their “weight.” Second, a s...

Process mining has become an active area of research and while there are numerous papers on approaches to process mining there are fewer detailing its application to real industrial scenarios and its applicability in these spaces. In this paper we introduce the approach to process mining used in a number of multinational enterprises and then reflect upon the issues that have been encountered du...

The innovative and dynamic nature of E-business enables small companies to compete with multinational corporations via online marketing. This paper serves as a guide from a practitioner’s perspective to embark in E-business while traditional marketing strategies are diminished. Three E-business adoption models for small enterprises are discussed. Planning involving new media, Internet technolog...

The title oœ this paper is Professor Wilkins'. When Mira phoned me about presenting a paper, I told her that I could; but only if I might use something from the introduction or conclusion oœ my forthcoming study--something that might be relevant for analyzing the development of multinational enterprises. As is almost always the case, I continue to fall behind schedule so the conclusion is still...

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and plant exit in Chile. We investigate three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the presence of multinationals affect the survival of other firms in the economy? Our results show tha...

I analyze the manner in which multinational enterprises facilitate technology transfer from the North to the South, and the role played by the protection of intellectual property. Different industries respond to changes in intellectual property protection (IPP) regimes differently, and will alter their mode of entry accordingly. Firms with complex but easily imitable products will tend to inter...

The presence of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) can benefit local economies. In particular, if MNEs are very productive compared to domestic firms, they may promote learning and catch-up of local firms. Such a channel of spillovers fromMNEs to local firms is known as the Veblen-Geschenkron effect. Rather than the overall density of MNEs in a region or sector, it is their initial produc...

Double taxation treaties are intended to eliminate double taxation, thereby encouraging FDI, and prevent tax evasion, which previous literature argues will have a negative effect on FDI. Using a segmented data set and matching econometrics, I show that double taxation treaties have no effect on FDI from developed to less developed countries and substantiate why: Developed countries unilaterally...