Innovation and institutional embeddedness of multinational companies

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heidenreich, Martin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar , c2012
Series:New horizons in international business
Subjects:
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