Physical attraction and the geography of knowledge sourcing in multinational enterprises

By John A. Cantwell, Ram Mudambi. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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EMNE catch‐up strategies in the wind turbine industry: Is there a trade‐off between output and innovation capabilities? (2012, background): “The simple acquisition of production knowledge does not automatically prompt the EMNE insider status in the industry that would subsequently ease the local knowledge search and competence-building efforts (Cantwell and Mudambi, 2011).”
Internationalization, Innovation and Institutions: The 3 I's Underpinning the Competitiveness of Emerging Market Firms (2013, background): “Such success stories are almost always sparked by the local knowledge sourcing activities of competence-creating multinational firm subsidiaries (Cantwell and Mudambi, 2011).”
Technology, innovation and knowledge: The importance of ideas and international connectivity (2016, background): “Consequently, by interacting with locations MNEs have the possibility to organize their activities for balancing the exploitation of their current knowledge base and the exploration of new knowledge bases (Cantwell & Mudambi, 2005; Cantwell & Mudambi, 2011).”
Innovation and international business (2017, background): “However, at least in the absence of dominant local firms, leading foreignowned firms may be better equipped to become established over time as insiders in a local system, and so to cultivate mutually beneficial two-way knowledge exchange with indigenous actors (Cantwell and Mudambi 2011).”
Reverse knowledge transfer in MNEs: : subsidiary innovativeness and entry modes (2014, background): “…to undertake reverse knowledge transfers within the firm without the cooperation of headquarters (Forsgren and Pedersen, 2000; Holm and Pedersen, 2000), and that headquarters involvement significantly improves reverse knowledge transfer performance (Ciabuschi et al., 2011; Dellestrand, 2011).”
Knowledge connectivity: An agenda for innovation research in international business (2016, background): “Homecountry sourcing tends to be prevalent in subsidiaries that are adaptive, have no technical leadership and little technical presence of the parent firm in the host country (Cantwell & Mudambi, 2011, Frost, 2001).”
A note on the revisited Uppsala internationalization process model – the implications of business networks and entrepreneurship (2016, unknown): “It is the position as an insider that matters rather than if the firm is domestic or foreign (Cantwell & Mudambi, 2011).”
Spatial geography and control in foreign acquisitions (2012, unknown): “Cantwell and Mudambi (2005) theorize and find that acquisitions affect innovation in subsidiaries, depending on subsidiary mandates; these same authors (Cantwell & Mudambi, 2011) also discuss how status as an established firm vs an outsider affects knowledge search behavior.”
MNEs as border-crossing multi-location enterprises: The role of discontinuities in geographic space (2013, background): “…" literature that on average, subsidiaries of MNEs have significantly higher levels of R&D, wages, high-skill employment (Beugelsdijk, Brakman, Van Ees, & Garretsen, 2013; Slaughter, 2004) and connections to local high-technology actors (Cantwell & Mudambi, 2011; Frost, 2001) than domestic firms.”
Place, space, and geographical exposure: Foreign subsidiary survival in conflict zones (2013, unknown): “Because operating in a conflict zone increases a foreign subsidiary’s exposure and reduces its chances for survival, we argue that location is as much a subnational decision as it is a country-level decision for the MNE (Cantwell & Mudambi, 2011; Coombs, Mudambi, & Deeds, 2006).”