What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant their mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of a...

This Special Edition of East-West Journal of Economics and Business is guided by the interest in the question to what extent foreign direct investors transfer technology or knowledge to the economies in Central East Europe (CEE). The main objectives of this Special Edition are: first, to...

What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...