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The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
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This study updates and extends research on foreign entry modes by examining the impacts of knowledge transfer capacity and knowledge tacitness. Research on international corporate expansion has long emphasized that deploying intangible knowledge-based assets is required for successful...
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This paper claims that internationalisation of innovation and the involved dispersal of activities in multinational … derives five ideal types of organising innovation in multinational companies: complete concentration, core … the same innovation project. This also shows that innovation is organised in a dynamic way and involves constant shifts …
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Innovation activity for national economy is mainly determined by a combination of strategies, decisions and actions of … innovation development.In the face of new global challenges and modern conditions the key element of successful innovative and …
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Community Innovation Survey for Belgium. Specifically, we investigate the role of foreign affiliates’ local (host country …
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The paper explores the long run evolution of Italy's performance in technological innovation as a function of … study is based on a newly constructed dataset, over the 1861-2009 period, composed of variables related to: innovation … by econometric assessment, the significant contribution of foreign technology both to innovation activity results and to …
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We build on international business (IB) developments over the past 55 years or so, to inform our understanding of the nature, objectives and essence of the MNE. We suggest that in contrast to the conventional economics-based approaches that have been dominant in the field of IB for many decades,...
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We construct an oligopoly model in which a multinational firm has a superior technology compared to local firms in the host country. Workers employed by the multinational acquire knowledge of its superior technology and can spread their knowledge to host firms by switching employers. The...
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Managers entrusted with new product development (NPD) have to seek the optimal balance between prior competencies and learning activities to generate successful products. Yet prior NPD research has largely taken a positivistic view of learning despite an inkling that too much learning can lead...
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Large multinational companies are regularly suspected of using transfer pricing of intangibles to shift profits from high- to low-tax jurisdictions. We study the optimal transfer prices while endogenizing the location choice of intangibles and considering spillovers. In line with the initial...
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