We analyze in this paper determinants of voluntary knowledge transfer from foreign investors to their local suppliers in 19 Sub- Saharan African countries using data from the 2010 Africa Investor Survey by UNIDO. We argue that not all backward linkages entail the same potential for spillovers...

This book focuses on three interdependent challenges related to managing transitions toward sustainable development, namely (a) mapping sustainability for global knowledge e-networking, (b) extending the value chain of knowledge and e-networking, and (c) engaging in explorations of new methods...

This paper studies the context of market orientation and the contribution of customer knowledge, networking, and cultural knowledge to market orientation particularly to the internationalization of firms in developing economies. A multiple case approach is adopted with four Swedish firms...