Foreign Direct Investment, Source Country Heterogeneity and Management Practices

Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Rickard Hammarberg ()
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Rickard Hammarberg: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Postal: P.O. Box 55665, SE-102 15 Stockholm, Sweden

No 1041, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper examines whether and, if so, why source country heterogeneity exists in foreign direct investment. Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate performance differs systematically across source countries. We then show that differences in foreign MNEs’ global management practices (estimated from the new firm-level data from the World Management Survey) is an important determinant of productivity among foreign affiliates.

Keywords: Multinational firms; FDI; Management practices; Firm performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 L10 M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 74 pages
Date: 2014-09-25, Revised 2017-06-26
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