How firm capabilities affect who benefits from foreign technology

By Garrick Blalock, Paul J. Gertler. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Economic Growth, Local Industrial Development and Inter-Regional Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China (2012, background): “2 See Blalock and Gertler [6], Broadman and Recanatini [7], Javorcik [8], and Sjöholm [9].”
Social structure and technology spillovers from foreign to domestic firms (2012, unknown): “Recent research has also stressed the need to model this heterogeneity in domestic firms (Blalock & Gertler, 2009; Blalock & Simon, 2009; Meyer, 2004; Spencer, 2008: 356–357).”
The Impact of Multinational Enterprise Strategy on Indigenous Enterprises: Horizontal Spillovers and Crowding Out in Developing Countries (2008, background): “For in stance, Blalock and Gertler (2005) found that lo cal Indonesian firms were more likely to learn facturing firms, Sj?holm (1999) found that productivity spill overs increased with the size of the technological gap and”
How Does FDI Inflow Affect Productivity of Domestic Firms? The Role of Horizontal and Vertical Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity and Competition (2007, unknown): “Evidence for the role of absorptive capacity (usually proxied by RD Blalock and Gertler 2005b ; Konings 2001 ; Sinani and Meyer 2002 ).”
Does Foreign Direct Investment Improve the Productivity of Domestic Firms? Technology Spillovers, Industry Linkages, and Firm Capabilities (2017, methodology): “Blalock and Gertler (2005a) find evidence of productivity gains and lower market prices among Indonesian firms supplying industrial sectors with a large foreign presence.”
Determinants of Horizontal Spillovers from FDI: Evidence from a Large Meta-Analysis (2013, background): “On the other hand, a small technology gap may mean that there is too little to learn from foreign investors (for more discussion on the role of the technology gap in mediating spillovers, see, for example, Blalock & Gertler, 2009; Sawada, 2010).”