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The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
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This study updates and extends research on foreign entry modes by examining the impacts of knowledge transfer capacity and knowledge tacitness. Research on international corporate expansion has long emphasized that deploying intangible knowledge-based assets is required for successful...
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Community Innovation Survey for Belgium. Specifically, we investigate the role of foreign affiliates’ local (host country …
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companies (MNCs). Such subsidiaries are viewed as critical players in the innovation process at MNCs. Although this topic has … the dynamics of the innovation process in Russian-based subsidiaries of global MNCs. It seeks to explore and understand … motivation and drivers of innovation, key participants, and impact and outcomes of innovation, with a specific reference to the …
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Is there knowledge adoption of innovations from emerging economies? We theorize that, to help overcome information asymmetry across countries, granting patents to technology in the emerging economy of China can serve as a signal of technology potential and market opportunity to enhance...
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, pre-grant publication provides a significant public good for cumulative innovation through accelerated access to …
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We build on extant theory of the MNC, MNC subsidiaries, absorptive capacity and Penrose's concept of 'productive opportunity' to develop a framework on the MNC and absorptive capacity (AC) that allows us to explore the role of subsidiaries in the global sourcing of knowledge. We develop and test...
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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...
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The environment of multinational corporation (MNC) is a multilingual community. Although virtual team members use a lingua franca (a shared language) to communicate in a multilingual community, the challenge of language capability would cause communication barriers, which may lead to conflict...
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This paper sheds new lights on the internationalization of technological activities of the top corporate R&D investors worldwide. In particular, we provide evidence on the technological factors determining their international R&D location strategies. The empirical analysis is based on the...
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