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Foreign ownership and long‐term survival
Author(s) -
Kronborg Dorte,
Thomsen Steen
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
strategic management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 11.035
H-Index - 286
eISSN - 1097-0266
pISSN - 0143-2095
DOI - 10.1002/smj.732
Subject(s) - subsidiary , competition (biology) , foreign ownership , liability , term (time) , business , economics , monetary economics , international economics , foreign direct investment , multinational corporation , finance , ecology , physics , macroeconomics , quantum mechanics , biology
We study the relative survival of foreign‐ and domestically owned companies in Denmark over more than a century (1895–2005). Contrary to previous studies that have emphasized the liability of foreignness, we find evidence of a significant survival premium for foreign‐owned companies; however, the premium declines over time and disappears entirely in the last decade leading up to 2005. Further evidence indicates that the foreign survival premium is negatively influenced by new foreign entry, and that the long‐run decline is caused by increasing competition between foreign subsidiaries. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.