Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role that the nation‐state plays in influencing the behaviour of the transnational companies (TNCs) and how it affects one's view of TNCs as efficiency‐ versus strategy‐driven institutions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and analyse the World Investment Report 2010 in the context of all the previous World Investment Reports ( WIR s) and their historical background. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a historical analysis, the structural features...

This paper analyses the relationship between business performance, R&D expenditures and innovation output. It utilises the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS2), a large-scale survey into firms’ innovation activities conducted in the UK by the DTI. We matched up CIS2 with performance data...