The activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are central to international business (IB) research and IB literature is replete with conceptual and empirical works on understanding how MNEs influence and react to their commercial environments. However relatively little attention has been...

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...

This study focuses on the innovative performance implications of large MNCs' regional and global technological knowledge search strategies. In networked MNCs, the parent can still offer valuable knowledge to subsidiaries. The parent's and a subsidiary's knowledge becomes complementary if an MNC...

This paper examines the impact of US firms on technological competitiveness in Europe between 1955-75 through a dynamic application of the eclectic theory of international trade and production. It looks at the improvement in the trading performance of European countries, and finds that in...

This article examines the evolution of the industrial structure of local technological development by U.S.-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and over the more recent period 1969-1995. Using a survey of U.S. subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and more...