data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of … the same European multinational parent firms suggesting that not all multinationals transplant their home productivity … advantage to the new EU Member States and Emerging Europe. One candidate for this startling difference in productivity levels …

innovation and productivity performance. Our econometric results suggest that foreign affiliates and domestic exporters were more … and higher productivity than firms that served only the domestic market. On average, innovation output was positively … associated with labour productivity over and above other determinants. Access to external knowledge flows explain to a large …

. Labor productivity becomes insignificant when the comparison group consists of domestically-owned affiliates with a high … less compared to other foreign affiliates and that there is no productivity advantage in favor of US firms like in …