Win, place, or show? How foreign investment strategies contribute to the technological growth of the multinational corporation

Long Range Planning

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 16-31

  Blomkvist, Katarina ^a   Kappen, Philip ^b   Zander, Ivo ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Strategic Management and Globalization Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL LAW; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS; FOREIGN INVESTMENT; FOREIGN OPERATIONS; INVESTMENT STRATEGY; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; PATENTING ACTIVITIES; TECHNOLOGICAL GROWTH; TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIOS;

INVESTMENTS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORPORATE STRATEGY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896447255     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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