FDI spillovers in an emerging market: The role of foreign firms' country origin diversity and domestic firms' absorptive capacity

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 969-989

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Li, Haiyang ^a   Li, Yu ^b   Zhou, Li An ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Emerging market; FDI spillovers; Technology gap; The diversity of FDI country origins

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; DOMESTIC FIRMS; EMERGING MARKETS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS; FOREIGN FIRMS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; PANEL DATA; TECHNOLOGY GAP;

COMMERCE; PRODUCTIVITY;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77954523440     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.856     Document Type: Article

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