Firms In Developing Countries

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Transnational Corporations And Local Firms In Developing Countries

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Author : Michael W. Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press DK
Release Date : 2006

Transnational Corporations And Local Firms In Developing Countries written by Michael W. Hansen and has been published by Copenhagen Business School Press DK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.

This book studies the organization and effects of linkages between transnational corporations - mainly Danish - and local firms in developing countries. It is based on a number of case studies of linkage collaborations and a survey of about ninety Danish firms and their relations to partners in developing countries. The analyzed host countries are Ghana, India, Malaysia, South Africa, and Vietnam. The book is a contribution to the emerging literature on firm strategy in developing countries, offering new empirical evidence of the multi-faceted and complex nature of cross-border inter-firm linkages. It documents how even small firms in both developed and developing countries engage in - and can benefit from - cross-border linkages.

Trade Related Industrial Collaboration Between Firms Of Developing Countries Forms And Policy Issues

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Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983

Trade Related Industrial Collaboration Between Firms Of Developing Countries Forms And Policy Issues written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.

Essays On Firms In Developing Countries

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Author : Jie Bai (Ph. D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

Essays On Firms In Developing Countries written by Jie Bai (Ph. D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.

This thesis consists of three chapters on microeconomic issues of firms in developing countries and the impact of government policies on business growth. The first chapter examines firms' incentive to establish a reputation for quality. A key problem in developing countries is the lack of reliable provision of high quality goods and services. I designed an experiment to understand this phenomenon in a setting that features typical market conditions in a developing country: the retail watermelon market in a major Chinese city. I begin by demonstrating empirically that there is substantial asymmetric information between sellers and buyers on sweetness, the key indicator of quality for watermelons, yet sellers do not sort and price watermelons by quality. I then randomly introduce one of two branding technologies into 40 out of 60 markets-one sticker label that is widely used and often counterfeited and one novel laser-cut label. I track sellers' quality, pricing and sales over an entire season and collect household panel purchasing data to examine the demand side's response. I find that laser branding induced sellers to provide higher quality and led to higher sales profits, establishing that reputational incentives are present and can be made to pay. However, after the intervention was withdrawn, all markets reverted back to baseline. To rationalize the experimental findings, I build an empirical model of consumer learning and seller reputation. The results indicate that information frictions and fragmented markets lead to significant under-provision of quality in this setting. Though there is a high demand for quality, trust could take a long time to establish under the existing branding technology, which makes reputation building a low return investment. While the new branding technology enhances consumer learning, small individual sellers do not have the incentive to invest in this technology due to their small market size and market competition. The second chapter (co-authored with Seema Jayachandran, Edmund J. Malesky and Benjamin Olken) considers how local governments' bribe extraction could interact with firms' growth. We propose a model in which government officials' choice of how much bribe money to extract from firms is modulated by inter-jurisdictional competition. The model predicts that economic growth decreases the rate of bribe extraction under plausible assumptions, with the benefit to officials of demanding a given share of revenue as bribes outweighed by the increased risk that firms will move elsewhere. A second prediction is that the negative effect of growth on bribery is larger if firms are more mobile. We find empirical support for these predictions. In particular, we employ two instrumental variables strategies-one based on growth in a firm's industry in other provinces within Vietnam and another based on industry growth in neighboring China and find that growth causes a decrease in bribe extraction. Our results suggest that as poor countries grow, corruption could subside on "its own." Consistent with the model's predictions, we find that the effect is for firms whose property rights to their land are transferable and who have operations in multiple provinces, two proxies for geographic mobility. The third chapter examines the impact of internal trade barriers on firms' performance and export activities. It is well known that various forms of non-tariff barriers exist among Chinese provinces. However, empirically, it is difficult to measure these barriers because they can take many forms. I take advantage of an export VAT rebate policy reform in 2004 as a natural experiment to identify the existence of internal trade barriers and study the impact on TFP and resource allocation. In particular, as a result of shifting tax rebate burdens, the 2004 reform leads to a greater incentive for the provincial governments to block the domestic flow of non-local goods related to exporting. I find that foreign trade companies in the coastal region become more "inward-looking" in the years after the reform, consistent with rising local trade barriers. The value of exports through intermediaries grows less in the inland region relative to the coastal region, and the negative effect is larger in inland provinces with greater exposure to the reform, measured using baseline reliance on trade through intermediaries. I extend the standard open-economy heterogeneous firm model by adding an intermediary sector as in Ahn, Khandelwal and Wei (2011) but with a new focus on the intermediary's role of domestic sourcing. The model can be used to analyze general equilibrium effects, examine firms' entry and exit into exporting, and quantify the distortion on TFP.

Manufacturing Firms In Developing Countries

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Author : James R. Tybout
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1998

Manufacturing Firms In Developing Countries written by James R. Tybout and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Developing countries categories.

Acquisition Of Technological Capability In Small Firms In Developing Countries

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Author : Hendrika Adriana Romijn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Acquisition Of Technological Capability In Small Firms In Developing Countries written by Hendrika Adriana Romijn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Small business categories.

Managing In Developing Countries

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Author : James E. Austin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Managing In Developing Countries written by James E. Austin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Business & Economics categories.

The Management Challenge --; What Is Different About Managing in Developing Countries? --; Whom Is This Book For? --; How Is the Book Organized --; How Important Are Developing Countries to the International Economic and Business System? --; How Diverse Are Developing Countries? --; Analyzing the Business Environment --; Environmental Analysis Framework --; Multiple Factors and Multilevels --; Environmental Factors --; Environmental Levels --; The Environmental Factors --; Economic Factors --; Political Factors --; Cultural Factors --; Demographic Factors --; Interpreting National Strategies --; Environmental Factors and National Strategies --; Historical Perspective --; Defining National Strategies --; Public Policies and Policy Instruments --; Country and Company Example: Cummins Engine in India --; Understanding Industry Structure and Competitive Dynamics --; The Competitive Strategy Model --; Government as Shaper of the Competitive Environment --; State-Owned Enterprises --; Business Groups --; Local Firms and Cooperatives --; Informal Sector Businesses --; Multinational Corporations --; The Development Process and Competitive Dynamics --; Managing the Functional Areas --; Business-Government Relations: Managing the Mega-Force --; Understanding Government Needs and Power: Political Mapping --; Meeting Government's Needs: The Search for Congruency --; Managing Government Relations: Strategic Approaches --; Managing Government Relations: Operating Issues --; Finance: Coping with Inflation, Foreign-Exchange Exposure, and Capital Scarcity --; Inflation.

Firms In Developing Countries

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Author : Michael W. Hansen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Firms In Developing Countries written by Michael W. Hansen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.

Business studies and development studies have evolved relatively independently of each other - business studies occupied with profit maximizing strategies and the activities of entrepreneurs, firms and value chains, and development studies with economic, social and political development strategies of countries and regions. However, as more and more of the world's value-adding activities take place in developing countries and as MNCs increasingly incorporate developing countries' markets and resources in their strategies, business studies has taken a growing interest in the particular conditions of local and foreign firms doing business in such environments. Simultaneously, as the limitations of state led development strategies have become apparent and as market ideology has become prevalent in a growing number of countries, development studies has directed growing attention towards the role of entrepreneurship, firm strategy, private sector development and foreign direct investment as vehicles for economic and social development. In other words, both fields approach business in development from different sides. This paper seeks to identify themes related to the firm in developing countries as taken up by both business and development studies. We suggest the themes of common interest and potential convergence to be those of market failures, institutions, entrepreneurship, clusters, and firm internationalization. The paper illustrates that there are substantial opportunities for cross-fertilization between the two bodies of academic enquiry, and indeed, that without a conversation between the two literatures in the era of globalization, the analytical and predictive power of both may be seriously impaired.

International Businesses And The Challenges Of Poverty In The Developing World

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Author : F. Bird
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2004-04-19

International Businesses And The Challenges Of Poverty In The Developing World written by F. Bird and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-19 with Business & Economics categories.

We live in a globally interconnected but economically divided world where internationally linked businesses can play a significant role in helping and/or obstructing the development of impoverished countries. Through a series of case studies, this volume examines what can be learned, both positively and critically, from the experiences of selected internationally connected firms in Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Vietnam, Guyana, and the Nunavik region of northern Canada. This book begins with a set of reflections on the strategies firms might adopt so that they develop both their own assets as well as those of the areas in which they operate. A team of more than two dozen researchers from the developed and developing countries conducted the research on which the essays on this and subsequent volumes are based. Dr Frederick Bird from Concordia University in Montreal directed the overall research project.

Development And International Cooperation In The Twenty First Century

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Author : United Nations. Economic and Social Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Development And International Cooperation In The Twenty First Century written by United Nations. Economic and Social Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Communication, International categories.

Acquisition Of Technological Capability In Small Firms In Developing Countries

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Author : Henny Romijn
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1999

Acquisition Of Technological Capability In Small Firms In Developing Countries written by Henny Romijn and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.

Provides an insight into the factors affecting capability building in small firms and spells out their implications for technology policy.