Joint foreign ownership and global value chains effects on productivity: A comparison of firms from Poland and Germany

Sabina Szymczak (), Aleksandra Parteka and Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz
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Sabina Szymczak: Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

No 69, GUT FME Working Paper Series A from Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology

Abstract: The study confronts the joint effects of foreign ownership and its involvement in global value chains (GVC) on the productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less productive than foreign ones, which is particularly true at low GVC participation levels. However, as GVC involvement increases, the foreign ownership productivity premium decreases, leading to productivity catching up between foreign and domestic owned firms. This mechanism is similar in Poland and Germany. However, in the leader country (Germany), domestically-owned firms' productivity performance is more stable along the GVC distribution.

Keywords: GVC; FDI; productivity; firms; Amadeus database (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 D24 F21 F23 F61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-05
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