The Strategic Development of Multinationals: Subsidiaries and Innovation

Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 13
1 Subsidiaries, Innovation and the Strategic Development of Multinationals......Page 16
2 Creative Transition and the Role of MNE Subsidiaries in Host-Country Industrialization......Page 36
3 Strategic Internalization and the Growth of the Multinational Firm......Page 58
4 Technology Sourcing in Multinational Enterprises and the Roles of Subsidiaries: An Empirical Investigation......Page 72
5 Strategic Heterogeneity in MNEs and the Integrating European Economy......Page 93
6 To ‘Almost See the World’: Hierarchy and Strategy in Hymer’s View of the Multinational......Page 113
7 Individualism and Interdependence in the Technological Development of MNEs: The Strategic Positioning of R&D in Overseas Subsidiaries......Page 130
8 Multinationals and National Systems of Innovation: Strategy and Policy Issues......Page 153
9 Externalization and Individualism: MNE Laboratories’ R&D Collaborations......Page 178
10 Funding Sources and the Strategic Roles of Decentralized R&D in Multinationals......Page 201
11 Globalization of Technology and the Movement of Scientific Personnel in Multinational Enterprises in Europe......Page 219
12 Multinationals and Economic Development in the Era of Globalization......Page 231
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