This paper examines the potential effect of anti-globalization on a key attribute of multinational enterprises (MNEs) – the ability to transfer efficiently complex firm specific technological knowledge internationally. Anti-globalization policies can suppress the transfer of complex...

We document how, in the early years of high technology firms, the origination of technological knowledge starts with firm founders, then shifts to other firm members, and later on to external stakeholders. We further show that greater reliance on founder technological knowledge is initially...

This research develops a location – allocation, mixed integer linear model that simultaneously evaluates a substantial number of multinational enterprise (MNE) location and control configurations to yield an optimal network, considering R&D, production and marketing facilities, produced...

We present a discrete choice model that analyses the location and control dilemmas of internationalising firms. The model relates simultaneously to a foreign market and to a foreign resource abundant country, and distinguishes between costs of performing specific value adding activities, costs...

The paper demonstrates how the scope of the internalization hypothesis can be extended by an explicit consideration of knowledge transfer costs and requirements. The paper outlines three important routes for advancing the internalization hypothesis: one is by adding a dynamic dimension to the...