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Innovation and institutional embeddedness of multinational companies / edited by Martin Heidenreich, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: New horizons in international business | Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham [England] ; Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar Pub, 2012Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 361 pages) : diagramsISBN:
  • 9780857934338
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: 9780857934321. | Erscheint auch als: Innovation and institutional embeddedness of multinational companies. Druck-Ausgabe. Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2012. XIX, 361 S.DDC classification:
  • 338.8/81
RVK: RVK: QP 200 | QP 305LOC classification:
  • HD58.8
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9780857934338Online resources: Summary: 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, focussing 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 wonderful volume brings together contributions mainly from the innovation literature, whose findings are in a sense quite familiar, but which in this collection are juxtaposed in such a way as to highlight their common institutional underpinnings. This is very much due to the efforts of the editor, whose insightful introduction and editorial vision brings out several interesting and emerging themes from this collection of papers. I think this volume breaks new ground in highlighting the embeddedness of MNE subsidiaries in multiple contexts, and it will be of considerable interest to scholars engaged with institutional analysis. However, I also believe that researchers interested in regional embeddedness, the geography of innovation, and knowledge management will find new angles to their work in this collected volume.’ (Sarianna M. Lundan, University of Bremen, Germany).PPN: PPN: 1023438534Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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