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The reaction of foreign firms to institutional changes: The case of German direct investment in Turkey
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In this paper, the authors analyze to what extent formal and informal institutional factors influence the investment decisions and strategies of managers in Turkey, and find that embedded German firms with long-term investment relationships in Turkey rely on both formal and non-formal institutions to respond to risks arising from shocks at a formal institutional level.About:
This article is published in Applied Geography.The article was published on 2021-09-01. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign direct investment & Investment decisions.read more
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Institutions and the fortunes of territories
TL;DR: This article reviewed recent progress in our understanding of the role of institutions for development, unveils the most important gaps, and proposes a series of avenues to improve how a better understanding of how institutions shape regional and urban development can lead to more efficient development policies.
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Highly skilled (re‐)migrants in multinational enterprises: Facilitators of cross‐border knowledge transfers
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined how externally recruited, highly skilled (re-)migrants facilitate cross-border knowledge transfers in multinational enterprises (MNEs) and found that highly skilled re-migrants of Turkish origin are strategically used to work at interface positions between German and Turkish business units.
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Ethnic networks in the internationalization of Turkish food producers
TL;DR: In this article , ethnic networks in Germany play an important role in the initial stages of export activities, in location selection, in gaining market information, and in reaching the mainstream retailers and consumers for Turkish food companies.
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Industrial Embeddedness and Regional Economic Resistance in Europe
TL;DR: In this article , the role of local industrial embeddedness (the share of regional inter-industry economic activity that is anchored to a region) on regional resistance to the 2008 Great Recession (GR) in EU and UK NUTS-2 regions was studied.
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Revisiting risk in the Global Production Network approach 2.0 - Towards a performative risk narrative perspective
TL;DR: In this article , a multi-scalar framework based on a performative risk narrative perspective is proposed to enhance the explanatory power of global production networks (GPN) risk.
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
TL;DR: Douglass C. North as discussed by the authors developed an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time.
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Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
Douglass C. North,John Alt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role that institutions, defined as the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction, play in economic performance and how those institutions change and how a model of dynamic institutions explains the differential performance of economies through time.
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Perception of risk.
TL;DR: This research aims to aid risk analysis and policy-making by providing a basis for understanding and anticipating public responses to hazards and improving the communication of risk information among lay people, technical experts, and decision-makers.
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The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework
Roger E. Kasperson,Ortwin Renn,Paul Slovic,Halina Szejnwald Brown,Jacque L. Emel,Robert Goble,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Samuel J. Ratick +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a conceptual framework that links the technical assessment of risk with psychological, sociological, and cultural perspectives of risk perception and risk-related behavior to amplify or attenuate public responses to the risk or risk event.
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Path dependence and regional economic evolution
Ron Martin,Peter Sunley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that path dependence and lock-in are place-dependent processes, and as such require geographical explanation, but little is known about why some regional economies become locked into development paths that lose dynamism, whilst other regional economies seem able to avoid this danger and in effect are able to reinvent themselves through successive new paths or phases of development.
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