Knowledge spillovers and the assignment of R&D responsibilities to foreign subsidiaries

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 823-845

  Feinberg, Susan E ^a   Gupta, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign subsidiary; Globalization; Knowledge; R D; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMMERCE; COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY; GLOBALIZATIONS; MULTI NATIONAL COMPANIES (MNC); SPILLOVERS;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 4043167844     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.396     Document Type: Article

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