Local R&D strategies and multilocation firms: The role of internal linkages

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 734-753

  Alcácer, Juan ^a   Zhao, Minyuan ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriability; Internalization; Knowledge spillover; Technology clusters

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIABILITY; DIRECT MARKETS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRM LOCATION; INTERNALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE FLOW; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; MARKET COMPETITION; MULTILOCATION; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

LOCATION;

EID: 84861352174     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1451     Document Type: Article

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