) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural … and social barriers which make their foreign engagements more strenuous and error prone (liability of foreignness). In our … foreignness. We hypothesise that liability of foreignness acts as a filter for foreign firms, restricting their access to host …

data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational .rms. The results … indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

Innovation success depends heavily on firm's ability to set priorities and select the most promising options from its … project portfolio before the odds of success or failure become visible and reliable. We ask: What does previous innovation …, research on absorptive capacities finds that previous innovation experience translates into superior ability to value, extract …

(liability of foreignness) may translate into additional obstacles for foreign subsidiaries. We test these hypotheses empirically … using a broad dataset of more than 1,000 innovative firms in Germany. We find that MNCs can compete on an equal footing with …

Competitors can be valuable sources and partners for innovation activities. Against the background of international …

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …

these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal … and Germany. We find that MNCs prefer broader sets of appropriability strategies in host countries with fewer …

using a broad dataset of more than 1,000innovative firms in Germany. We find that MNCs can compete on an equal footing with …