brought by globalization and the removal of restrictions to the free flow of capital, technology, knowledge, people and … the examination of the impact of globalization on the reached level of competitiveness of the economies of the Western … question raised in the paper is to what extent the process of globalization and the entry of transnational corporations into …

relatively few linkages between MNEs and domestic firms in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asia. However, when linkages are … present in sub-Saharan Africa, they raise the likelihood of direct knowledge/technology transfers from MNEs to domestic firms …