Regional and Global Patterns of Internationalisation of Finnish MNEs

Lundan SariannaTolvanen Juha

Much of the recent evidence on the internationalisation patterns of Finnish MNEs has come from analyses of the Top 30 firms. This paper uses newly available data from the Orbis database on the foreign affiliates of Finnish MNEs, and compares this to the existing sources of data from the Bank of Finland and Statistics Finland. By utilising firm-level that includes smaller internationalising firms, we are able to get a more com-prehensive picture of the international activities Finnish firms. We are also able to present an analytically grounded classification of the different types of internationalising firms in terms of the spread or entropy of their international activities. Such a classification will enable a more fine-grained measure of internationalisation in future studies that examine for example the effects of internationalisation on the home country.

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Serie
Discussion Papers no. 1170
Nyckelord
monikansalliset yritykset,kansainvälistyminen,entropia
Nyckelord
multinational enterprises, internationalisation, entropy
JEL
D21,D24,F21,F23,M16
Sidor
27
Pris
10 €
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Språk
Engelska