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...

Over the past two decades, there has been a substantial shift in the global innovation landscape. Multinationals from developed economies are increasingly globalizing their R & D activities and are developing an “open innovation” model to source innovations from outside the firm, including...

Traditionally, technology intensive industries such as electronics, information technology and pharmaceuticals have been dominated by firms from the U.S., Europe and Japan. Of late, there has been a shift in this triad dominance — firms from emerging economies, such as TATA of India, BYD of...

The success of latecomer firms from the emerging economies challenges the conventional wisdom on entry timing and resource-based competence. Building on research on institutions in emerging economies and the resource-based perspective in strategic management, we propose a model to explain how...