MNC Strategies and Linkage Effects in Developing Countries

By M. W. Hansen, Torben Pedersen, Bent Petersen. 2009

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The study addresses the implications MNC strategies have for linkage effects in developing countries. Two contrasting MNC strategies, which reflect an integration-responsiveness dichotomy, are scrutinized in terms of their effects on jobs among local linkage partners in developing countries. It is hypothesized that the investments of MNCs pursuing local responsiveness create more jobs among local linkage partners, but imply less job upgrading, when compared to investments undertaken by MNCs following strategies of global integration. The hypotheses are tested on a sample of Danish MNCs with extensive investments in developing countries.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. P. Pavlínek
2. Torben Pedersen
3. Virginia Hernández

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1. P. Pavlínek
2. P. Žížalová
3. Virginia Hernández
4. Torben Pedersen
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6. Ram Mudambi

Citations in the corpus

• Global Production Networks, Foreign Direct Investment, and Supplier Linkages in the Integrated Peripheries of the Automotive Industry (2018, background): “FDI linkages are repeated transactions between foreign subsidiaries and domestic firms, including linkages between foreign subsidiaries and various host-country institutions (Hansen, Pedersen, and Petersen 2009).”
• Linkages and spillovers in global production networks: firm-level analysis of the Czech automotive industry (2016, background): “…is vast literature on spillovers, linkages and effects of FDI on domestic firms and regional development (e.g. Firn, 1975; Dicken, 1976; Britton, 1980; Hayter, 1982; Phelps, 1993; Amin et al., 1994; Aitken and Harrison, 1999; Blomstro¨m and Kokko, 2001; Hansen et al., 2009; Jindra et al., 2009).”
• Global Value Chain Configuration: A Review and Research Agenda (2017, background): “Specifcally, some scholars distinguish between dispersed and oncentrated global value chains (Hansen et al., 2009).”