This paper adds to the limited number of studies analysing the relationship between host country corruption and FDI … inflows. A model describes the incentives foreign MNEs and host country bureaucrats have for engaging in corruption and shows … how corruption increases the MNE costs of operations in the host country. The model predicts that the costs caused by …

In this paper, we analyze how the offshoring of services by Swedish firms is affected by corruption in target economies … services is affected by the presence of corruption in target economies. The results suggest that corruption is a deterrent for … service offshoring. Firms avoid corrupt countries, and corruption reduces the amount of offshored services. In addition, the …

Corruption is often portrayed as a barrier to trade and investment capable of altering international investment … patterns. Here, we analyze how firms’ choice of country and the volume of offshored material inputs are affected by corruption … in target economies. Taking stance from the gravity model of trade, the analysis suggests that corruption is a deterrent …

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … innovators, temporary innovators and non-innovators. The results are consistent regardless of whether innovation efforts are …

Recent literature on firm innovation emphasize the importance of combinations of different knowledge sources in … innovation processes. Moreover, the literature on firm collaboration has evolved stepwise: (1) knowledge networks tend to be … important. By using data from a survey on innovation and collaboration of 636 firms in the county of Jönköping, Sweden, we find …

innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have …

Innovation networking has become both more feasible with improved telecommunication and more important as it usually … innovation networks are not very common. In addition, the pattern of innovative networks is very fragmented. Our results indicate … that innovation networks are more likely to exist in densely populated areas with a diversified industry. Face …

This paper analyses the aspects of spatial economics that deals with innovation, regional specialization and dynamic … systems of functional regions and in particular the contributions made by the economist Börje Johansson. The innovation aspect … consists of innovation networks, knowledge sources and knowledge sinks, cost and innovation of product characteristics and …