) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural … and social barriers which make their foreign engagements more strenuous and error prone (liability of foreignness). In our … foreignness. We hypothesise that liability of foreignness acts as a filter for foreign firms, restricting their access to host …

aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

The innovative performance of 1,200 representative firms in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and … the Slovak Republic was analyzed. The study differentiates between product innovation and three different forms of process …

Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority … of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production … foreign affiliates of multinationals to export - or by ignoring fixed costs associated with foreign investment. I develop a …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

In recent decades firms have intensified the exploration of external sources of knowledge to enhance their innovation …