National employment systems are changing primarily through the activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In order to understand in how far national employment systems are susceptible to change, we revisit important quantitative empirical studies published since 1994 on the transfer of...

Das spezifische Beschaeftigungssystem Deutschlands wurde in der Vergangenheit als Voraussetzung fuer die Herstellung qualitativ hochwertiger Produkte und eine typische Innovationsstaerke im Bereich inkrementeller Innovationen gewertet. Der Beitrag wird diesem Zusammenhang auf der Ebene...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on complementarities and substitutions between various types of innovation capabilities in knowledge-intensive-based service (KIBS) firms. The data used in this study are the responses of 2,625 innovative firms to the 2003 Statistics Canada Innovation...

In the last decade, few countries have figured prominently as cases of late-late developers that achieved worldwide success with their Information Technology (IT) industries. This paper focuses on the Israeli case and argues that uniquely in that group, and in contradiction to the model proposed...

Technology transfer through strategic technology alliances (STAs) is found to be a common initiative used by Malaysian manufacturing organizations to reap more effective outcomes. This study explores the influence of organizations’ available resources, absorptive capacity and opportunistic...