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1 online resource (345 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy |
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Routledge studies in international business and the world economy.
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| Contents |
Cover; Multinational Enterprises and Innovation: Regional Learning in Networks; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Regional Learning in Multinational Enterprises; 2. Innovation in Multinational Enterprises: Between Organisational Control and Social Embeddedness; 3. The Methodological Approach; 4. The Corporate Dimension of Innovation: An Interplay between Formalisation and Flexibilisation, and Concentration and Dispersal; 5. The Regional Embeddedness of Corporate Innovation; 6. Regionalised Innovation Policies in Germany and France |
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7. Similarities and Differences of Leadership and Cooperation in German and French Innovation Projects: A Contrastive Perspective8. Patterns of Industrial R & D across Europe; 9. A Multiterritorial Approach to Corporate Innovation in MNEs: Concluding Remarks; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 te |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Barmeyer, Christoph I
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Koschatzky, Knut
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Mattes, Jannika
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Kruth, Katharina
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Baier, Elisabeth
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| ISBN |
9780203804582 |
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0203804589 |
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