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Multinational Enterprises and Innovation: Regional Learning in Networks - Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy Heidenreich, Martin (University of Oldenburg, Germany) 1st edition
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Multinational Enterprises and Innovation: Regional Learning in Networks - Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
Heidenreich, Martin (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
The crucial actors of a global knowledge-based economy are multinational enterprises (MNEs). MNEs depend on the embeddedness in an institutional framework; their competitive advantage depends on the cross-border utilisation of regional and national capabilities. The innovativeness of a company is therefore based also on regional innovation systems. Multinational Enterprises and Innovation contributes to a better understanding of the interconnectedness between organisational and regional learning.
On the basis of case studies in Germany and France, this volume investigates how MNEs cope with technical, economic and institutional uncertainties by drawing upon the complementary strengths of organisational and regional networks in national and European contexts. The book links two theoretical debates which are currently still largely disconnected -- the debate on learning processes in MNEs and the debate on the regional bases of innovativeness and competitiveness -- answering the question of how the internationalisation of R& D is reconciled with regional competences.
328 pages, 23 Tables, black and white
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 27, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415891158 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 230 × 157 × 24 mm · 604 g |
| Language | English |
