practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data … for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Contrary to the implications of the varieties … innovation. Various paths to radical innovation exist, and most of them involve functional flexibility. Overall, the findings …

Innovation is a collective process that entails the coordination of distributed knowledge across diverse organizations …. Technology infrastructures provide innovation systems with governance mechanisms to create and sustain complementarities across … otherwise dispersed competences. The paper presents innovation platforms as a specific case of technology infrastructure …

labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This … labour demand is about 40 percent lower in domestic than in foreign multinationals …

Foreign-owned subsidiaries make significant contributions to national Research and Development (R&D) in many host …

and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are successful in innovation without research and development (R&D) efforts. In this … Germany, we show empirically that Big Five personality traits of small business owners positively affect self-selection into … DUI-based innovation in less R&D-intensive SMEs. That is, companies operating largely under the DUI mode seem to benefit …

and trade of multinational firms. Conventional wisdom says that MNEs set up foreign sales platforms close to large markets … an important role in explaining the location of the foreign sales platforms. We document that foreign sales platforms in … havens for distinctive sectoral activities. The back-of-the-envelope computation shows that profit shifting by foreign sales …