Location and the multinational enterprise

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-41

  Cantwell, John ^a  

^a RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Global location portfolios; Knowledge flows; Local spillovers; Location strategy; Multinational enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149354663     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2008.82     Document Type: Review

References (75)

1. Aharonson, B, S., Baum, J. A. C., & Feldman, M. P. 2007. Desperately seeking spillovers? Increasing returns, industrial organization and the location of new entrants in geographic and technological space. Industrial and Corporate Change, 16(1): 89-130.
2. Alcácer, J. 2006. Location choices across the value chain: How activity and capability influence collocation. Management Science, 52(10): 1457-1471.
3. Alcácer, J., & Chung, W. 2007. Location strategies and knowledge spillovers. Management Science, 53(5): 760-776.
4. Almeida, P. 1996. Knowledge sourcing by foreign multinationals: Patent citation analysis in the US semiconductor industry. Strategic Management Journal, 17(Winter Special Issue): 155-165.
5. Almeida, P., & Phene, A. 2004. Subsidiaries and knowledge creation: The influence of the MNC and host country on innovation. Strategic Management journal, 25(8-9): 847-864.
6. Andersson, U., & Forsgren, M. 2000. In search of centre of excellence: Network embeddedness and subsidiary roles in multinational corporations. Management International Review, 40(4): 329-350.
7. Bartlett, C. A., & Ghoshal, S. 1989. Managing across borders: The transnational solution. London: Century Business.
8. Birkinshaw, J. M., Hood, N., & Jonsson, S. 1998. Building firm-specific advantages in multinational corporations: The role of subsidiary initiative. Strategic Management Journal, 19(3): 221-241.
9. Blomström, M., Kokko, A., & Globerman, S. 2001. The determinants of host country spillovers from foreign direct investment: A review and synthesis of the literature. In N. Pain (Ed.), Inward investment, technological change and growth: 34-65. London: Macmillan.
10. Breschi, S., & Malerba, F. 2001. The geography of innovation and economic clustering: some introductory notes. Industrial and Corporate Change, 10(4): 81 7-833.
11. Cairncross, F. 1997. The death of distance: How the communications revolution is changing our lives. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
12. Cantwell, J. A. 1989. Technological innovation and multinational corporations. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
13. Cantwell, J. A. 1995. The globalization of technology: What remains of the product cycle model? Cambridge journal of Economics, 19(1): 155-174.
14. Cantwell, J. A., & Mudambi, R. 2005. MNE competence-creating subsidiary mandates. Strategic Management Journal, 26(12): 1109-1128.
15. Cantwell, J. A., & Piscitello, L. 2000. Accumulating technological competence: Its changing impact on corporate diversification and internationalization. Industrial and Corporate Change, 9(1): 21-51.
16. Cantwell, J. A., & Piscitello, L. 2005. Recent location of foreign-owned R&D activities by large multinational corporations in the European regions: The role of spillovers and externalities. Regional Studies, 39(1): 1-16.
17. Cantwell, J. A., & Piscitello, L. 2007. Attraction and deterrence in the location of foreign-owned R&D activities: The role of positive and negative spillovers. International journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 1 (1): 83-111.
18. Cantwell, J. A., & Santangelo, G. D. 2002. The new geography of corporate research in information and communications technology (ICT). journal of Evolutionary Economics, 12(1-2): 163-197.
19. Cantwell, J. A., & Vertova, C. 2004. Historical evolution of technological diversification. Research Policy, 33(3): 511-529.
20. Chung, W., & Kalnins, A. 2001. Agglomeration effects and performance: A test of the Texas lodging industry. Strategic Management Journal, 22(10): 969-988.
21. Cohen, W. M., & Levinthal, D. A. 1989. Innovation and learning: The two faces of R&D. Economic journal, 99(3): 569-596.
22. Doz, Y. 1986. Strategic management in multinational companies. Oxford: Pergamon.
23. Driffield, N., & Love, J. 2006. Who gains from whom? Spillovers, competition and technology sourcing in the foreign-owned sector of UK manufacturing. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 52(5): 663-686.
24. Driffield, N., & Love, J. 2007. Linking FDI motivation and host economy productivity effects: Conceptual and empirical analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, 38(2): 460-73.
25. Dunning, J. H. 1958. American investment in British manufacturing industry. London: Allen & Unwin.
26. Dunning,J. H. 1970. Studies in international investment. London: Allen & Unwin.
27. Dunning, J. H. 1995. Reappraising the eclectic paradigm in an age of alliance capitalism, Journal of International Business Studies, 26(3): 461-491.
28. Dunning, J. H. 1996. The geographical sources of competitiveness of firms: Some results of a new survey. Transnational Corporations, 5(3): 1-21.
29. Dunning, J. H. 1998. Location and the multinational enterprise: A neglected factor? Journal of International Business Studies, 29(1): 45-66.
30. Dunning, J. H. 2008. The key literature on IB activities: 1960-2006. In A. M. Rugman (Ed.), Oxford handbook of international business: forthcoming. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
31. Dunning, J. H. 2009. Location and the multinational enterprise: John Dunning's thoughts on receiving the Journal of International Business Studies 2008 Decade Award. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(1): 20-34.
32. Dunning, J. H., & Lundan, S.M. 2008. Multinational enterprises and the global economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
33. Dunning, J. H., Fujita, M., & Yakova, N. 2007. Some macro-data on the regionalisation/globalisation debate: A comment on the Rugman/Verbeke analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, 38(1): 177-199.
34. Eden, L., & Molot, M. A. 2002. Insiders, outsiders and host country bargains, Journal of International Management, 8(4): 359-388.
35. Ernst, D. 2002. Global production networks and the changing geography of innovation systems: implications for developing countries. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 11(6): 497-523.
36. Feinberg, S., & Gupta, A. 2004. Knowledge spillovers and the assignment of R&D responsibilities to foreign subsidiaries. Strategic Management Journal, 25(8-9): 823-845.
37. Flores, R. G., & Aguilera, R. V. 2007. Globalization and location choice: Analysis of US multinational firms in 1980 and 2000. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(7): 1187-1210.
38. Florida, R. 2005. The world is spiky. The Atlantic Monthly, 296(3): 48-51.
39. Forsgren, M., Holm, U., & Johanson, J. 2005. Managing the embedded multinational: A business network view. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
40. Friedman, T. L. 2005. The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
41. Frost, T. S. 2001. The geographic sources of foreign subsidiaries′; innovations. Strategic Management Journal, 22(2): 101-123.
42. Ghemawat, P. 2001. Distance still matters: The hard reality of global expansion. Harvard Business Review, 79(8): 137-147.
43. Hedlund, G. 1986. The hypermodern MNC: A heterarchy? Human Resource Management, 25(1): 9-25.
44. Henisz, W. J. 2000. The institutional environment for economic growth. Economics and Politics, 12(1): 1-31.
45. Henisz, W. J. 2004. The institutional environment for international business. In P. J. Buckley (Ed.), What is international business?: 85-109. London: Palgrave.
46. Henisz, W. J., & Delios, A. 2002. Learning about the institutional environment. In P. Ingram & B. S. Silverman (Eds), The new institutionalism in strategic management: 339-392. New York:JAI Press.
47. Hymer, S. H. 1960. The international operations of national firms: A study of direct investment. Unpublished PhD dissertation (published 1976), Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
48. Hymer, S. 1972. The multinational corporation and the law of uneven development. In J. Bhagwati (Ed.), Economics and world order from the 1970s to the 1990s: 113-140.
49. London:Collier-Macmillan.
50. Johanson, J., & Vahlne, J.-E. 1977. The internationalization process of the firm: A model of knowledge development and increasing foreign market commitments, Journal of International Business Studies, 8(1): 23-32.
51. Liu, X., Siler, P., Wang, C, & Wei, Y. 2000. Productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment: Evidence from UK industry level panel data, Journal of International Business Studies, 31(3): 407-425.
52. Marin, A. 2006. Technologically active subsidiaries and FDI-related spillover effects in industrialising countries: Evidence from Argentina in the 1990s. Unpublished PhD dissertation, School of Management, University of Sussex, Brighton.
53. Nachum, L, & Zaheer, S. 2005. The persistence of distance? The impact of technology on MNE investment motivations. Strategic Management Journal, 26(8): 747-768.
54. Nobel, R., & Birkinshaw, J. M. 1998. Innovation in multinational corporations: Control and communication patterns in international R&D operations. Strategic Management Journal, 19(5): 479-496.
55. Nohria, N., & Ghoshal, S. 1997. The differentiated network: Organizing multinational corporations for value creation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
56. Ozawa, T. 2003. Japan in an institutional quagmire: international business to the rescue? Journal of International Management, 9(3): 219-235.
57. Perez, T. 1997. Multinational enterprises and technological spillovers: An evolutionary model. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 7(2): 169-192.
58. Phene, A., & Almeida, P. 2008. Innovation in multinational subsidiaries: The role of knowledge assimilation and subsidiary capabilities. Journal of International Business Studies, 39(5): 901-919.
59. Piscitello, L. 2004. Corporate diversification, coherence and economic performance. Industrial and Corporate Change, 1 3(5): 757-787.
60. Porter, M. E. 1986. Competition in global industries: A conceptual framework. In M. E. Porter (Ed.), Competition in global industries: 15-60. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
61. Porter, M. E. 1994. The role of location in competition. Journal of the Economics of Business, 1(1): 35-39. Porter, M. E. 1996. Competitive advantage, agglomeration economies, and regional policy. International Regional Science Review, 19(1-2): 85-94.
62. Porter, M. E. 2000. Location, competition and economic development: Local clusters in a global economy. Economic Development Quarterly, 14(1): 15-34.
63. Qian, G, Li, L., Li, J., & Qian, Z. 2008. Regional diversification and firm performance. Journal of International Business Studies, 39(2): 197-214.
64. Ricart, J. E., Enright, M.J., Ghemawat, P., Hart, S., & Khanna, T. 2004. New frontiers in international strategy. Journal of International Business Studies, 35(3): 1 75-200.
65. Rugman, A. M. 1979. International diversification and the multinational enterprise. Lexington, MA: DC Heath.
66. Rugman, A. M., & Verbeke, A. 2004. A perspective on regional and global strategies of multinational enterprises. Journal of International Business Studies, 35(1): 3-18.
67. Rugman, A. M., & Verbeke, A. 2007. Liabilities of regional foreignness and the use of firm-level versus country-level data: A response to Dunning et al. (2007). Journal of International Business Studies, 38(1): 200-205.
68. Rugman, A. M., & Verbeke, A. 2008. Location, competitiveness and the multinational enterprise. In A. M. Rugman (Ed.), Oxford handbook of international business; forthcoming. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
69. Rumelt, R.P 1974. Strategy, structure and economic performance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
70. Shaver, J. M., & Flyer, F. 2000. Agglomeration economies, firm heterogeneity, and foreign direct investment in the United States. Strategic Management Journal, 21 (12): 11 75-1193.
71. Teece, D. J., Rumelt, R. P., Dosi, G, & Winter, S. G. 1994. Understanding corporate coherence: Theory and evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 23(1): 1-30.
72. Vernon, R. 1966. International investment and international trade in the product cycle. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 80(2): 190-207.
73. Wei, Y., & Liu, X. 2006. Productivity spillovers from R&D, exports and FDI in China's manufacturing sector. Journal of International Business Studies, 37(4): 544-557.
74. Zaheer, S. 1995. Overcoming the liability of foreignness. Academy of Management Journal, 38(2): 341-363.
75. Zaheer, S., & Mosakowski, E. 1997. The dynamics of the liability of foreignness: A global study of survival in financial services. Strategic Management Journal, 18(6): 439-464.