These networks enable firms to share risks and costs and to access markets.

Over the same period, however, the share of Central and Eastern European firms decreased by half.

And it's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

38. In many commodity markets, a major share of global trade flows is handled by a small group of transnational firms who source products globally, and thus apportion export shares of firms and countries.

Yes, there are plenty of world class firms in emerging markets, and the expansion of the middle class is unmistakable. But only a tiny share of these economies labor is employed in productive enterprises, while informal, unproductive firms absorb the rest.

Even though the share of internationally active SMEs was increasing, the majority of firms were not prepared to cope with the heightened international competition on the global market.

This has encouraged a growing number of firms, particularly in the OECD countries, to share the development costs and spread the risks in the adoption of new technologies.

In terms of activity abroad by Singaporean firms, the financial sector's share of OFDI hovered consistently in the range of 54 per cent 56 per cent in 1990 2003.

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

This difference in manufacturing's share reflects the changing industrial origin of Singaporean firms that engage in OFDI and the continuing importance of the manufacturing sector as a favoured industrial activity abroad.

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Moreover, the firms listed on China s stock exchanges are not representative of the country s companies. Majority state owned firms account for two thirds of the market value of the country s exchanges, for example, though they are responsible for no more than one third of Chinese GDP and an even smaller share of employment.

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

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XXXIV, p. 355. Moreover, there was no significant difference with the rates of market share decline of leading firms in a control group on the other hand, the fact that leading firms in those markets which the MMC had found to lack competition were no more successful in preserving their dominant positions than leading firms in other markets would indicate that the MMC s intervention may have successfully facilitated competition.

construction firms and type of worker,

German firms reacted by outsourcing the labor intensive parts of their production chains and curtailing their investment in Germany. The share of net investment in GNP is now the second lowest in all OECD countries.

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

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Similarly, a uniform (high) interest rate applied to all industries and firms would penalize those firms in need of high levels of working capital.

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

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Scarcity of appropriate skills is another factor constraining firms.

Globalization may reinforce traditional relations of dominance between firms.

(f) Strict control over the arsenals of security firms.

The motives for OFDI by firms from developing countries do not differ from those of developed country firms, although developing country firms have a greater tendency to invest in neighbouring countries and in other developing countries.

While shortage of finance could affect all firms, it is particularly constraining for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and firms in LDCs.