Geography, Location, and Strategy
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Geography, Location, and Strategy - Juan Alcácer, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas and Bernard Yeung PART I: HOW FIRMS ARE ORGANIZED ACROSS BORDERS The International Configurations of US Multinational Corporations - Heather Berry Trade of Multinational Production? Consumer Preferences and Multiproduct Firms - Catherine Thomas Multinational Business Groups - Katalin Szemeredi The Location of Multinational Firms' R&D Activities Abroad: Host Country University Research, University-Industry Collaboration, and R&D Heterogeneity - Shinya Suzuki, René Belderbos and Hyeog Ug Kwon PART II: HOW GLOBAL FIRMS OVERCOME CROSS-BORDER CHALLENGES Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment - Juan Alcácer, Karin Beukel and Bruno Cassiman Sourcing from Multinational SUppliers to Overcome Weak Contracting Institutions and Gain Supply Chain Capabilities - Kjell Carlsson Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? Geographic Concentration, Social Norms, and Knowledge Transfer - Giada Di Stefano, Andrew A. King and Gianmario Verona The Spatial Diffusion of an Invisible Corporate Practice: Revisiting Stock Backdating, 1981-2005 - Pino G. Audia and Fiona Kun Yao PART III: VALUE CREATED BY CROSS-BORDER MNC ACTIVITY Cross-Regional R&D Collaboration and Local Knowledge Spillover - Minyuan Zhao and Mazhar Islam Origin Matters: The Differential Impact of Import Competition on Innovation - Xiaoyang Li and Yue Maggie Zhou Multinational Activity in Emerging Markets: How and When Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth? - Laura Alfaro INDEX
Business scholars explore multinational production in terms of how firms are organized across borders, how global firms overcome cross-border challenges, and value created by cross-border multinational corporation activity. Among their topic are trade or multinational productions: consumer preference and multi-product firms, multinational business groups, capturing value from intellectual property in a global environment, the spatial diffusion of an invisible corporate practice: revisiting stock backdating 1981-2005, and origin matters: the differential impact of import competition on innovation.