This paper investigates vertical knowledge transfers from inward-invested multinational enterprises to indigenous Chinese suppliers in the electrical and electronics industry in Wuxi, China. Through 16 dyadic case studies, a three-stage pathway of relationship development is established in which...

This study identifies two categories of exploration for competence-creating subsidiaries of contemporary multinational corporations (MNCs) by taking both the subsidiary's and the MNC's existing knowledge into consideration. While subsidiary exploration not new to the MNC (SE1) brings in...

The objective of the paper is to report on the effect of revaluing foreign direct investment (FDI) at replacement values as a means of estimating the importance of international production. A perpetual inventory model is used to revalue FDI stocks to constant and current values. The empirical...