How domestic and foreign firms differ and why does it matter?

C Bellak - Journal of economic surveys, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews and summarises the results of selected studies on performance gaps
between multinational enterprises and their domestic counterparts. Performance gaps arise …

De-internationalization: A thematic review and the directions forward

RW Tang, Y Zhu, H Cai, J Han - Management International Review, 2021‏ - Springer
The fast-growing interest in de-internationalization research calls for a comprehensive
synthesis of extant literature to identify paths for future research. We have responded to this …

Like milk or wine: Does firm performance improve with age?

A Coad, A Segarra, M Teruel - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Little is known about how firm performance changes with age, presumably because of the
paucity of data on firm age. We analyze the performance of a panel of Spanish …

Promarket reforms and firm profitability in develo** countries

A Cuervo-Cazurra, LA Dau - Academy of Management Journal, 2009‏ - journals.aom.org
This study proposes that promarket reforms positively affect firms' profitability in develo**
countries because the accompanying improvements in external monitoring decrease firms' …

Does foreign direct investment crowd out domestic entrepreneurship?

K De Backer, L Sleuwaegen - Review of industrial organization, 2003‏ - Springer
In analyzing firm entry and exit across Belgian manufacturing industries, this paper presents
evidence that import competition and foreign direct investment discourage entry and …

The determinants of survival of Spanish manufacturing firms

SE Pérez, AS Llopis, JAS Llopis - Review of Industrial Organization, 2004‏ - Springer
This paper analyses the factors determining Spanish manufacturing firms' survival–and exit.
The data are drawn from the survey Encuesta sobre Estrategias Empresariales for the …

Recovery and exit of zombie firms in Portugal

C Carreira, P Teixeira, E Nieto-Carrillo - Small Business Economics, 2022‏ - Springer
The resources sunk in zombie firms have risen over the last two decades, hampering
productivity growth in developed economies. In this paper, we examine the recovery and exit …

Cross-country evidence on start-up dynamics

F Calvino, C Criscuolo, C Menon - 2015‏ - oecd-ilibrary.org
The report provides a description of start-up dynamics exploiting the richness of the recently
collected DynEmp v. 2 database. The contribution of new firms in terms of new jobs to the …

Gibrat's law: An overview of the empirical literature

E Santarelli, L Klomp, AR Thurik - … growth, and innovation: The dynamics of …, 2006‏ - Springer
In two recent studies (Audretsch, Klomp, Santarelli and Thurik, 2004 and Piergovanni,
Santarelli, Klomp and Thurik, 2003) we tried to test the validity of Gibrat's Law, ie, growth …

Taking stock of foreign divestment: Insights and recommendations from three decades of contemporary literature

P Arte, J Larimo - International Business Review, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Despite garnering an increasing amount of scholarly attention in the past three decades, the
literature on foreign divestment is characterised by inconsistent theoretical arguments and …