Knowledge Seeking and Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States

By Wilbur Chung, Juan Alcácer. Management Sciences, 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Location choices within global innovation networks: the case of Europe (2008, background): “Empirical studies have shown that both European and Japanese firms have tended to use their American affiliates to successfully source technology (Almeida 1996; Frost 2001; Chung and Alcacer 2002; Iwasa and Odagiri 2004).”
Why do Chinese firms tend to acquire strategic assets in international expansion (2009, background): “Some researchers (Chung & Alcacer, 2002; Wesson, 2004) argue that FDI and M&A in particular are the most effective channel for firms to access and source strategic assets.”
Finding a Home away from Home (2014, background): “…demonstrated that places with significant industry activity are attractive for foreign entrants because of the potential to benefit from spillovers (Chung and Alcacer, 2002), and the appeal of such benefits should be even stronger if immigrants increase the odds of capitalizing on locally bound…”
Globalization and location choice: an analysis of US multinational firms in 1980 and 2000 (2007, background): “In particular, Dunning (1998) notes, first, that MNCs are increasingly pursuing market-seeking rather than asset-seeking (Makino et al., 2002) or knowledge-seeking (Chung and Alcacer, 2002) strategies.”
Distributed R&D, Cross-Regional Knowledge Integration and Quality of Innovative Output (2008, neutral): “6 locating far from direct competitors, allocating relatively less vulnerable projects to high-risk clusters and relying on the firm’s worldwide complementary capabilities to leverage knowledge (Shaver and Flyer, 2000; Chung and Alcacer, 2002; Zhao, 2006; Alcacer and Zhao, 2006).”
What is “strategic asset seeking FDI”? (2015, background): “Authors in this literature refer to capability-augmenting motivations, although they do not clearly separate whether such technology is sought to enhance the competiveness of the parent organization or of the subsidiary (Chung and Alcacer, 2002; Kogut and Chang, 1991).”
1 Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation (2008, background): “…literature here and the work of scholars in that area is omitted (for coverage of this, please see Agrawal & Cockburn, 2003; Almeida & Kogut, 1999; Chung & Alcacer, 2002; Feinberg & Gupta, 2004; Feldman, 1999; Fleming, Mingo, & Chen, 2007; Gittelman, 2007; Gupta & Govindarajan, 2000; Jaffe &…”
Connecting local entrepreneurial ecosystems to global innovation networks: open innovation, double networks and knowledge integration (2011, background): “that of firms in the semiconductor industry and four times that of electronics firms (Chung and Alcacer, 2002).”
Physical attraction and the geography of knowledge sourcing in multinational enterprises (2011, background): “An Overview: A Summary of the Argument and its Contribution to the Literature In recent years, a good deal of literature has been devoted to the motive of knowledge seeking in the international activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) (e.g. Cantwell, 1989; Dunning, 1996; Cantwell and Piscitell”
Knowledge spillovers and the assignment of R&D responsibilities to foreign subsidiaries (2004, background): “It is also noteworthy that, in recent years, knowledge spillovers have emerged as a critical factor in explaining location choice for foreign manufacturing investments (e.g., Chung and Alcacer, 2002; Head et al., 1995; Shaver and Flyer, 2000).”
Does knowledge spill to leaders or laggards? Exploring industry heterogeneity in learning by exporting (2008, background): “Although research suggests that firms invest in foreign markets with the intention of sourcing knowledge that resides abroad (Chung & Alcácer, 2002; Chung & Kalnins, 2001; Kogut & Chang, 1991; Martin & Salomon, 2003; Shaver & Flyer, 2000), few studies address whether firms in technologically…”
Institutions and the internationalization of US venture capital firms (2010, positive): “Our theoretical and empirical analysis is in line with recent work in international business research emphasizing that firms frequently expand abroad in order to enhance and complement their existing capabilities with new knowledge (Alcacer & Chung, 2007; Chung & Alcacer, 2002).”