Lehrer, Mark; Asakawa, Kazuhiro; Behnam, Michael - In: Journal of International Management 17 (2011) 1, pp. 42-53
The situation in which a multinational firm compensates for comparative weakness in home-country R&D by locating vital R&D activities in foreign countries with a stronger R&D base has generally been considered a fairly marginal phenomenon. Yet home base-compensating R&D by MNCs is more prevalent...