The Strategic Development of Multinationals: Subsidiaries and Innovation

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Subsidiaries, Innovation and the Strategic Development of Multinationals....Pages 1-20
Creative Transition and the Role of MNE Subsidiaries in Host-Country Industrialization....Pages 21-42
Strategic Internalization and the Growth of the Multinational Firm....Pages 43-56
Technology Sourcing in Multinational Enterprises and the Roles of Subsidiaries: An Empirical Investigation....Pages 57-77
Strategic Heterogeneity in MNEs and the Integrating European Economy....Pages 78-97
To ‘Almost See the World’: Hierarchy and Strategy in Hymer’s View of the Multinational....Pages 98-114
Individualism and Interdependence in the Technological Development of MNEs: The Strategic Positioning of R&D in Overseas Subsidiaries....Pages 115-137
Multinationals and National Systems of Innovation: Strategy and Policy Issues....Pages 138-162
Externalization and Individualism: MNE Laboratories’ R&D Collaborations....Pages 163-185
Funding Sources and the Strategic Roles of Decentralized R&D in Multinationals....Pages 186-203
Globalization of Technology and the Movement of Scientific Personnel in Multinational Enterprises in Europe....Pages 204-215
Multinationals and Economic Development in the Era of Globalization....Pages 216-229
Back Matter....Pages 230-250