Subsidiary embeddedness as a determinant of divisional headquarters involvement in innovation transfer processes

Journal of International Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 229-242

  Dellestrand, Henrik ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Divisional headquarters; Embeddedness; Innovation transfer; Multinational enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052081595     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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