In this paper the relationship between firm growth and external knowledge sources, such as related firms and … properly accounts for growth relevant knowledge spillovers and allows for estimating their spatial range and functional form … factors substantially differ along firms' size, type of knowledge source and growth level. …

, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America) as well as in groups of countries with similar levels of knowledge (country … products. Location decisions receive the strongest influencing effects from the international experience of the firm. Firms …

The internationalisation of corporate R&D is an opportunity for firms to reach local knowledge and expertise which is … products to local needs with locally available knowledge or the whole product development process including R&D. The aim of the … 1200 firms headquartered in Germany. A second step observes whether the effects of the potential internal and external …

on knowledge generation, their emerging counterparts follow mainly a knowledge-use regime through the application of … existing knowledge and technology. Climbing up the technological ladder can be helped through spillovers from foreign investors … to local firms. We investigate whether FDI spillovers influence different phases of the innovation process (from decision …

firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of … is assessed in the context of OLS and fractional logit models, controlling for industry and location characteristics. We … ownership shares in new affiliates. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm characteristics ; Indian locations ; German FDI …

characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of firm … context of OLS and fractional logit models, controlling for industry and location characteristics. We show that the effect of …

This paper studies the effects of agglomeration economies on the location choices by foreign firms in Vietnam. By using … a large dataset that provides detailed information about individual firms, the study examines the location choices by … agglomeration effects on the location choices by foreign investments in transition economies in general and in Vietnam in particular …

Our paper investigates the FDI attracting potential of emerging markets by in terms of their location attributes. We … that are relevant for the MNEs location decision. We find that countries tend to be grouped at a geographical level or … countries' transitions from one cluster to another over the years, which indicate a natural process of changing location …

In the international business literature location behavior has traditionally been analyzed using Dunning's (1977) OLI … taken place either in MNE organization or in the global and institutional environment for foreign direct investment (FDI …). At the same time, we argue that current location theory from regional economics and economic geography is also largely …