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Using survey evidence the paper characterises TNCs' strategic positioning in central and eastern European economies in terms of the relative status of seven motives for investing and the degree of use of seven sources of technology. As a key theme the ways in which the diverse objectives and...
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The paper seeks to reformulate the ‘colourful and fluid’ early debate on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in two ways. Firstly, the wide range of separate specific concerns of the early debate are subsumed within four generic issues, (i) efficiency, (ii) distribution, (iii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357684
The paper seeks to reformulate the ‘colourful and fluid’ early debate on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in two ways. Firstly, the wide range of separate specific concerns of the early debate are subsumed within four generic issues, (i) efficiency, (ii) distribution, (iii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146627
The paper first introduces typologies of the production subsidiaries and R & D laboratories through which MNEs activate global competitive and creative strategies. These are used to describe, and assess the implications of, the diverse ways in which MNEs paricipate in the national system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146633
This paper considers the Multinational Enterprise (MNE) as a differentiated learning network with subsidiaries playing a critical role in managing knowledge. Drawing on sample of 92 subsidiaries operating in Greece, this paper empirically tests the relationship between sources of technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146642
In this paper we investigate the location determinants of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in the UK at a regional level. The paper focuses on a relatively under investigated field, that of the linkage between choice of regional location- within a particular host countryand subsidiary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005178179