Developing country firms could face some cost disadvantages with the adoption of an EMS.

of firms. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), in both developing and developed countries, tend to face larger difficulties in setting up EMS.

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An increase in VAT raises the price of imported goods, as foreign firms face a higher tax. To ensure that domestic firms do not have an incentive to raise prices, an increase in VAT needs to be accompanied by a cut in payroll taxes.

Provision of venture capital to newly emerging innovative firms may also attract international firms to collaborate with domestic firms.

South America is outside the world s main value chains. Innovative firms face the uphill challenge of developing entire new products and selling them in geographically and economically distant markets.

Widely held and controlled companies differ considerably in the governance problems their investors face. In widely held firms, the concern is about opportunism by managers, who exercise de facto control in controlled firms, the concern is about opportunism by the controlling shareholder at the expense of minority shareholders.

Clusters of firms may or may not involve formal partnerships between spatially proximate firms.

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Many such firms were family firms, which found it difficult to develop an entrepreneurial outlook.

It was suggested that complementary government policies and programmes could play an important role in supporting firms in developing countries, and particularly SMEs, as they face the many challenges in the distribution market.

Developing Country Firms through Internationalization

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Developing Country Firms through Internationalization

Developing Country Firms through Internationalization

Developing Country Firms through Internationalization

Stratified sample survey of firms

International competitiveness among firms is in fact significantly influenced by the national environments in which firms operate.

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Large firms face an increasingly fluid economic, technological, and political environment owing to more global and competitive markets, to the greater potential of technological change to alter firms business environment, and to governments growing influence over what makes business sense. In this fluid environment, large companies must be cautious before making large, long term commitments.

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In recent years, large firms, including commodity firms, have increasingly used information technology to achieve two prime objectives.

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construction firms and type of worker,

Government policies and firms diversification decisions

Because the basic governance problems in the two types of firms are considerably different, arrangements that benefit investors in widely held firms might be irrelevant or even counterproductive in controlled firms, and vice versa. As a result, applying a single standard for assessing investor protection worldwide is bound to miss the mark with respect to widely held firms, controlled firms, or both.

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