Local firms spillovers from multinationals’ exports in Switzerland
This paper aims to examine how local firms can learn from the export activities of large multinational corporations (MNCs). Arguing that MNCs’ export activities could act as catalysts for local firms, allowing them to start exporting or intensify their export volume, we hypothesize that the size and...
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| description | This paper aims to examine how local firms can learn from the export activities of large multinational corporations (MNCs). Arguing that MNCs’ export activities could act as catalysts for local firms, allowing them to start exporting or intensify their export volume, we hypothesize that the size and extent of export spillovers depend on the linkage between local firms and MNCs, the geographical distance between them in the home country, and the foreign export market destination in terms of psychic distance from the home market. Using Swiss manufacturing firm-level data, we found support to this learning by exporting effect through which local firms benefit from the presence of MNCs’ exporter counterparts and the export activities of their upstream MNCs’ suppliers, with particular effects of the nature and the physical location of destinations. From these findings, several important academic and practical implications are exhibited and discussed |
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| spelling | doaj.art-87f04b6360e24c0aa8dc032f3d7deaed2024-02-15T11:58:41ZengAsociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas (AECA), Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT)Small Business International Review2531-00462024-02-0181e58110.26784/sbir.v8i1.581581Local firms spillovers from multinationals’ exports in SwitzerlandLamia Ben Hamida0HES-SO - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Haute École de Gestion Arc - NeuchâtelThis paper aims to examine how local firms can learn from the export activities of large multinational corporations (MNCs). Arguing that MNCs’ export activities could act as catalysts for local firms, allowing them to start exporting or intensify their export volume, we hypothesize that the size and extent of export spillovers depend on the linkage between local firms and MNCs, the geographical distance between them in the home country, and the foreign export market destination in terms of psychic distance from the home market. Using Swiss manufacturing firm-level data, we found support to this learning by exporting effect through which local firms benefit from the presence of MNCs’ exporter counterparts and the export activities of their upstream MNCs’ suppliers, with particular effects of the nature and the physical location of destinations. From these findings, several important academic and practical implications are exhibited and discussedhttps://sbir.upct.es/index.php/sbir/article/view/581mncslocal firmsexport spilloversregional effectexport destinationhorizontal and vertical linkages |
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| title_short | Local firms spillovers from multinationals’ exports in Switzerland |
| title_sort | local firms spillovers from multinationals exports in switzerland |
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