Ownership-specific advantages

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Ownership-specific advantages

Property rights or intangible assets, including patents, trademarks, organizational and marketing expertise, production technology, and management and general organizational abilities, that form the basis for a company's advantage over other firms.

Ownership-Specific Advantages

Intangible assets in a company, such as intellectual property, property rights, brand recognition, and other areas. Owning the copyright to a superior product is an example of an ownership-specific advantage, as is an exceptionally good organizational system. Ownership-specific advantages are less quantitative ways a company is able to remain competitive against companies in the same industry. That is, the idea behind ownership-specific advantages states that there is more to competition that simply providing the best price. Intangibles also play a significant role.

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A higher foreign ownership level in IJVs allows MNEs to maximise the returns on ownership specific advantages, and to have full control and protection over business operations and proprietary assets.

The impact of ownership on the propensity to innovate in China's large- and medium-sized industrial enterprises

1) Of the competitive or ownership specific advantages of firms, which the received literature suggests are possessed by firms undertaking FDI, we have identified the three factors of particular significance in the hotel industry.

2) Of the location specific advantages offered by particular countries for the siting of foreign hotels the four most important factors for choosing one country over another identified by the respondents to our questionnaire, were (a) size and growth rate of host country, (b) the opportunities for tourism, (c) the available and quality of hotel related infrastructure (that is location bound complementary assets to the ownership specific advantages of the foreign hotels) and (d) political, social and economic stability.

The internationalization of the hotel industry - some new findings from a field study

The article specifies how the creation of a single European market alters the locational advantages of producing in Europe and strengthens the ownership specific advantages of European Community firms.

The propensity of a firm to engage in foreign production is influenced by the combination of ownership specific advantages, internalisation opportunities and locational advantages of the target market (Dunning, 1981).

Economic integration brings about changes in the distribution of locational advantages across markets and in the distribution of ownership specific advantages across international firms.

On the other hand, the dynamic effects of further integration on R&D activities and innovation potential will strengthen the ownership specific advantages of multinational firms of Community origin.

A good indication of the potential ownership specific advantages enjoyed by firms is to look at their comparative advantage in innovative activity.