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IWH FDI Micro Database - Survey of multinational affiliates in East Germany and selected Transition Economies (2013)

Günther, Jutta
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5940 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12151
Abstract: 1. Questions concerning the foreign owned enterprise´s financial sources and restrictions for investment and the distribution and educational background of its employees. 2. Standard questions about the shareholder structure of enterprises with foreign/West German ownership, e.g. date of entry, mode of entry, enterprise operated as a contractor to the foreign shareholder, autonomy over particular business functions. 3. Directed only to enterprises with outward FDI with similar questions as the second section. 4. Questions about domestic investment. 5. Research and development (R&D), R& ... more
Topics: Business/industrial management and organisation | Economic systems and development

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 2013
Geographic coverage: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (DE-MV) | Saxony (DE-SN) | Saxony-Anhalt (DE-ST) | Thuringia (DE-TH) | Berlin (DE-BE) | Brandenburg (DE-BB) | Romania (RO) | Poland (PL) | Czech Republic (CZ) | Slovakia (SK) | Hungary (HU)
Universe: Companies with one or more foreign investors - INWARD FDI All companies in the selected sectors and countries in 2010 in which at least one foreign investor (in East Germany a West German multinational investor) holds either at least 10% of the shares/voting rights directly or at least 25% of the shares/voting rights indirectly Companies investi ... more
Number of Units: 1122
Sampling Procedure: Probability Sample: Stratified Sample Stratification by country, size class, industry (manufacturing, other industry) and inward or outward
Mode of Data Collection: Telephone interview: CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview)
Data Collector: infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft, Bonn
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 116
Notes: Management, deputy or assistant to the management, department or division heads, especially in the area of research and development, were interviewed.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Günther, Jutta - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)
Publication year: 2014
DOI: 10.4232/1.12151
Study number: ZA5940
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Research data center: FDZ IWH
External links: IWH Foreign Direct Investment, Project Site

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2014-12-23, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12151
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Reference publications

Publications: Günther, Jutta; Gauselmann, Andrea; Marek, Philipp; Jindra, Björn: IWH-FDI-Micro-Database: Methodological Note Survey 2013 In Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and East Germany (including Berlin). Halle: Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), 2013
Study group:
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Transformation and knowledge transfer from the perspective of Eastern European companies.

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