Birkinshaw, Julian; Hood, Neil - In: Journal of international business studies : JIBS ; an … 31 (2000) 1, pp. 141-154
This paper examines the characteristics of foreign-owned subsidiaries in export-intensive "leading-edge industry clusters" as defined by Porter [1990]. Using a sample of 229 subsidiaries from three countries, we show that subsidiaries in such clusters are more embedded, more autonomous, and more...