Organizational growth and performance hinge upon the effective implementation and transfer of technological knowledge. Implementing and transferring such knowledge however can be difficult and time-consuming. Interestingly, we understand little about what determines the performance of...

We hypothesize that several characteristics of a country's institutional environment encourage firms to agglomerate. To test our hypotheses, we examine the collocation pattern of 931 plant investments made by 266 firms across 29 countries in the global semiconductor industry from 1975 to 2004....

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...