Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global
knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and
locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with
specific regional and national factors. This book questions how
MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded knowledge, explores
the utilization of external institutionally embedded knowledge in
corporate innovation processes, and addresses the challenges of
embeddedness. The expert contributors draw on managerial, economic,
geographic and sociological perspectives to explore the essential
roles of regional and national knowledge infrastructures and the
cultural and political environment of MNCs. They build upon,
update, and extend the discussion on the regional and national
embeddedness of MNCs with new country case studies and comparative
analyses, focusing on the relationship between innovation in
companies and regional studies. Significantly, the book also
establishes a link between two important debates that have hitherto
been largely disconnected: regional studies and international
business studies separately address issues that fall within the
scope of the book, but do not provide an integrated analysis of the
embeddedness of MNCs. This path-breaking book goes some way to fill
this gap in the literature and as such, will prove invaluable to
academics, R&D managers, regional policy makers and students
with an interest in international business, business economics,
regional studies and organization studies. Contributors: P.
Ahrweiler, B.T. Asheim, E. Baier, C. Barmeyer, P. Cooke, J.R. Diez,
B. Ebersberger, N. Gilbert, J. Guimon, B. Hancke, M. Heidenreich,
S.J. Herstad, S. Iammarino, B. Klement, K. Koschatzky, J.-P.
Kramer, K. Kruth, E. Marinelli, J. Mattes, R. Narula, A. Pyka, D.
Rehfeld, M. Schilperoord, OE. Soelvell, S. Strambach
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