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See you in court: Smartphone giants’ patent litigation strategies and outcomes
Sep 12, 2014
In recent years, two titans of the smartphone industry – Apple and Samsung – have found themselves locked in courtroom battles. New research suggests that these disputes, which have resulted in extensive media coverage, are little more than show, and that rather than spending their time pursuing litigation against one another, the opponents would be better served learning to co-operate. The study, by Drs. Deli Yang of Trinity University, and Maho Sonmez of UTSA, San […]More...
Lifting the resource curse: Transparency of multinational enterprises
Sep 12, 2014
Countries blessed with abundant petroleum resources are often burdened by weak government and economic performance – a phenomenon known as the resource curse – and experts see the need for greater transparency. Recent regulatory initiatives call for increased multinational enterprise (MNE) transparency. Yet about 75 per cent of the world’s oil reserves are controlled by state-owned enterprises (SOEs), many of which are not subject to the transparency requirements that come with being listed on a […]More...
Lost in translation: Language and reverse knowledge transfer in multinational corporations
Sep 12, 2014
One of the pleasures of travel is listening to the sound of exotic languages in foreign places. But for a multinational corporation (MNC) setting up shop overseas, linguistic differences can bring a host of problems that have the potential to seriously impact performance.More...
Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds Essential, researchers say
Sep 12, 2014
Consider the economic potential – and political power – that $5.5-trillion of the global economy can generate. It exists, quietly, and the western banking system can attest to it. During the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s faltering economy was recapitalized by $40-billion in less than four months.More...
Increased profits from tax havens don’t nurture R&D in multinational enterprises
Sep 12, 2014
It’s an almost-unfathomable figure: US$21 trillion to US $32 trillion – nearly half of the globe’s annual GDP of $72 trillion – that is estimated by the Tax Justice Network to have been secretly squirrelled away by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in tax havens. That’s money that should, but isn’t, going into the tax coffers of nations like Canada.More...
How tax policy and corruption impact businesses
Sep 12, 2014
Corruption impacts the business environment of a country with surprisingly varying outcomes, depending on the efficiency of the tax policy administration and regulatory environment, new research reveals.More...