This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. The paper … develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production … plants if communication costs impede the access of production plants to headquarter knowledge. The paper assumes that the …

This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. In the theory …, knowledge is a costly input for firms that they can acquire at their headquarters or their production plants. Communication … costs impede the access of the plants to headquarter knowledge. The model shows that multinational firms systematically …

withdrawal of its services from mainland China to assess the importance of access to information for the knowledge production … function of scientific scholars in the field of economics. For economists, a type of scholar with a simple knowledge production …

innovations with a high degree of novelty (world-first innovations). Knowledge from publications is not associated with a …Firms can use different sources of external knowledge for developing and implementing innovations. Some knowledge is … provided deliberately by the source and constitutes intended knowledge spillovers, e.g., knowledge disclosed in publications or …