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Internationalization and Innovation; A PSM Approach

Gasperini, Michela LU (2020) EKHS42 20201
Department of Economic History
Abstract
Recent phenomena, as the offshoring of R&D activities, have raised the question of whether intensive internationalization strategies are hampering the abilities of firms to implement innovations. This research wants to study the intensive margin of internationalization in order to understand whether the breakage of the links within the production processes, due to practices such as offshoring and outsourcing, were indeed jeopardizing the innovative capacities of European manufacturing firms in 2008. By implementing a propensity score matching with binary treatment, I find no evidence that internationalization had a negative impact on innovation due to the lost links within the production process, but I do find hints that intensive... (More)
Recent phenomena, as the offshoring of R&D activities, have raised the question of whether intensive internationalization strategies are hampering the abilities of firms to implement innovations. This research wants to study the intensive margin of internationalization in order to understand whether the breakage of the links within the production processes, due to practices such as offshoring and outsourcing, were indeed jeopardizing the innovative capacities of European manufacturing firms in 2008. By implementing a propensity score matching with binary treatment, I find no evidence that internationalization had a negative impact on innovation due to the lost links within the production process, but I do find hints that intensive internationalization hurt intensive innovation abilities. Lastly, I also find that offshoring and importing intermediate products were better for innovation than outsourcing, on the extensive margin. (Less)
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author
Gasperini, Michela LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS42 20201
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Propensity score matching, offshoring and outsourcing, innovation, internationalization
language
English
id
9020936
date added to LUP
2020-07-03 12:15:43
date last changed
2020-07-03 12:15:43
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  abstract     = {{Recent phenomena, as the offshoring of R&D activities, have raised the question of whether intensive internationalization strategies are hampering the abilities of firms to implement innovations. This research wants to study the intensive margin of internationalization in order to understand whether the breakage of the links within the production processes, due to practices such as offshoring and outsourcing, were indeed jeopardizing the innovative capacities of European manufacturing firms in 2008. By implementing a propensity score matching with binary treatment, I find no evidence that internationalization had a negative impact on innovation due to the lost links within the production process, but I do find hints that intensive internationalization hurt intensive innovation abilities. Lastly, I also find that offshoring and importing intermediate products were better for innovation than outsourcing, on the extensive margin.}},
  author       = {{Gasperini, Michela}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Internationalization and Innovation; A PSM Approach}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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