Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded...

1. Introduction : regional learning in multinational enterprises -- 2. Innovation in multinational enterprises : between organisational control and social embeddedness -- 3. The methodological approach -- 4. The corporate dimension of innovation : an interplay between formalisation and...