Staying Competitive in the Global Economy: Compendium of Studies on Global Value Chains

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11-Jun-2008

This volume brings together several studies on globalisation carried out over the past few years. The work aimed at strengthening the evidence base on globalisation of value chains, which should ultimately enable the development of policies to address key concerns.

Measuring Globalisation: Activities of Multinationals, 2007/2008 edition

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16-Apr-2008

This publication presents detailed data on the industrial activity of multinationals in OECD countries. In an era of globalisation, these data highlight the increasing importance of multinationals in the economies of host countries. Time series cover 23 countries for the period 2000-2004.

Recent Trends in the Internationalisation of R&D in the Enterprise Sector

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13-Mar-2008

The internationalisation of scientific and technological activities has grown in scale. The role and strategy of multinationals in R&D raises new issues not only for firms themselves but also for policy makers. This report sets out facts and trends that emerge from the data available.

Offshoring and Employment: Trends and Impacts

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13-Jul-2007

This report provides new insights into offshoring, which has become a fact of life for business, and describes the wide-ranging effects that offshoring can have on domestic employment -- the positive, as well as the negative.

Staying Competitive in the Global Economy: Moving Up the Value Chain (Synthesis Report)

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06-Jun-2007

The globalisation of production has changed the industrial structure within OECD countries, and in some sectors blunted their competitiveness. Another major consequence has been fears of job losses, due to outsourcing and offshoring. How should OECD countries respond?

Measuring Globalisation: OECD Economic Globalisation Indicators

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30-Nov-2005

OECD Economic Globalisation Indicator shelps identify the economic activities of member countries under foreign control, and more particularly the contribution of multinational enterprises to growth, employment, productivity, labour compensation, R&D, technology diffusion and int trade.

STI Scoreboard 2001

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18-Sep-2001

The Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2001 brings together the latest internationally comparable data on trends in the knowledge-based economy. Indicators that capture the changing relationship ...

New Patterns of Industrial Globalisation: Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances

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28-Jun-2001

New patterns of globalisation are accelerating the internationalisation of industry and reshaping industrial structure at the global level. Rapidly growing cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) ...

Publication

Staying Competitive in the Global Economy

Moving Up the Value Chain

Measuring Globalisation

With over 250 graphs, these indicators shed light on the contribution of multinationals to growth, employment, productivity, labour compensation, R&D and international trade.

OECD Economic Globalisation Indicators

Guidelines for data collection and the fine-tuning of indicators to measure the extent and intensity of economic globalisation.

OECD Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators

Editor's Choice

Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances

New Patterns of Globalisation