We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms.
First, we construct a panel firm-level dataset for eight advanced European countries …

In this article, we investigate whether environmental capabilities influence firms' corporate
strategies, a topic that has received little attention to date. We hypothesize that firms are …

The paper investigates the impact of the host country's environmental uncertainty on the
choice of entry mode and also discusses the moderating role of technological heterogeneity …

Job creation is one of the main challenges for developing countries. The aim of this paper is
to analyse the relation between foreign ownership and employment using an original firm …

The European electricity industry was recently liberalized. In response, there was a surge of
mergers and acquisitions (M&As). This study addresses the effects of M&As on the eco …

This paper examines the causal relationship between foreign mergers and acquisitions
(M&A) and the productivity of acquired firms using micro-data from the UK over the period …

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive
discriminatory behavior out of the market. The authors analyze how firm takeovers and …

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people
in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future-all over the world, poor or …

Foreign acquisitions are an increasingly important mode of FDI in the new EU member
states (NMS). Using firm‐level data and a common estimation framework for seven NMS, we …

Foreign direct investment is considered an important source of knowledge spillovers. We
argue that the effects of foreign presence on host-country productivity may differ depending …