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ItemExploring Home-Regionalisation: The Case of Cross-Border M&A(Academy of International Business (AIB), 2010)This paper explores the home region bias of multinational corporations. We utilise a new dataset of more than 64,000 merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions from across the globe over a 19-year period. We demonstrate a very strong home country bias on the part of firms, and a substantially weaker, but still important home region bias. Nevertheless, MNCs appear far from home region-bound, and M&As appear an effective and increasingly utilised strategic mechanism for building and complementing firm-specific advantages within and across regions.
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ItemINTERNAL LABOUR MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM TWO LARGE AUSTRALIAN EMPLOYERS(WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 2009-07)This paper examines internal labour markets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century using personnel records from the Union Bank of Australia and the Victorian Railways. Both employers hired young workers and offered them the possibility of very‐long‐term employment. Salaries were determined by impersonal rules, such as being attached to tenure and to position. Workers rarely received nominal pay cuts. This approach to human resources was designed to retain and motivate workers. We show that all of the classic features of internal labour markets used to describe American firms in the 1970s were present dating back to the Victorian period.
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ItemSubsidiaries in motion: Assessing the impact of sunk versus flexible assets(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009-12-01)
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ItemReassessing (home-)regionalisation(PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2008-03)