Technology transfer from TNCs to local suppliers in developing countries: A study of AB Volvo’s truck and bus plants in Brazil, China, India, and Mexico

By Inge Ivarsson, Claes Goran Alvstam. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Key policy considerations for facilitating low carbon technology transfer to developing countries (2008, background): “Traditionally, commentators tended to base their ideas around neo-classical ‘accumulation theories’ of technology transfer (Nelson and Pack, 1999; Ivarsson and Alvstam, 2005).”
Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Countries A Framework for Analysis (2011, unknown): “An important example is the car industry, in which increasingly fine-meshed production and distribution networks have emerged worldwide and developing country suppliers have been able to take their share of R&D and sophisticated production processes (Ivarsson and Alvstam 2005).”
Subsidiary roles, vertical linkages and economic development: Lessons from transition economies (2009, background): “Through technology transfer, spillovers and linkages, multinational enterprises (MNEs) are of critical importance for economic development, especially for developing and transition economies (Hoekman & Javorcik Smarzynska, 2006; Ivarsson & Alvstam, 2005; Kugler, 2006; UNCTAD, 2001).”
FDI Spillovers and Time Since Foreign Entry (2014, unknown): “Based on their AB Volvo case study, Ivarsson and Alvstam (2005) conclude that technology transfer to suppliers is more efficient in Volvo’s older plants.”
Sustainable Supply Chain Management in "Base of the Pyramid" Food Projects - A Path to Triple Bottom Line Approaches for Multinationals? (2013, background): “Such strong vertical links of MNCs to supplier firms in developing countries are found to be beneficial for spreading technology and knowledge (Ivarsson and Alvstam, 2005; Giroud, 2007), both basic pre-conditions of enhanced sustainability performance.”
Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys (2006, unknown): “Moreover, our paper does not examine the technological spillovers that firms integrated into global markets may generate to domestic firms (for example, Javorcik, 2004; Ivarsson and Alvstam, 2005).”
MNEs vertical linkages: The experience of Vietnam after Malaysia (2007, background): “Local supply linkages forged by MNEs go beyond pecuniary exchange and bring technical, but also informational, financial, organisational and managerial externalities (Crone & Roper, 2001; Ivarsson & Alvstam, 2005; Lim & Fong, 1982; UNCTAD, 2001).”