Innovation and institutional embeddedness of multinational companies
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK :
Edward Elgar ,
c2012
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| Series: | New horizons in international business
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : the debate on corporate embeddedness
- 2. Regional embeddedness of multinational companies and their limits : a typology
- 3. The multi-home-based corporation : solving an insider-outsider dilemma
- 4. MNCs between the local and the global : knowledge bases, proximity and distributed knowledge networks
- 5. MNCs, clusters and varieties of innovative impulse
- 6. Simulating the role of MNCs for knowledge and capital dynamics in networks of innovation
- 7. Technological capabilities and the regional embeddedness of multinational companies. A case study of Germany and the UK
- 8. The organizational decomposition of innovation and territorial knowledge dynamics : insights from the German software industry
- 9. The impact of regional institutional characteristics on the location of MNCs - a European perspective
- 10. Modes of regional embeddedness : companies in seven European regions compared
- 11. The poles de competitive : regional innovation clusters with a French touch
- 12. Multinational companies and the production of collective goods in Central and Eastern Europe
- 13. The role of multinational corporations in the national innovation systems of the EU new member states
- 14. Conclusion : corporate embeddedness as a strategic and dynamic process of skilled actors