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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Knowledge Flows within Multinationals—Estimating Relative Influence of Headquarters and Host Context Using a Gravity Model

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Mike Horia Teodorescu and Tarun Khanna
From the perspective of a multinational subsidiary, we employ the classic gravity equation in economics to model and compare knowledge flows to the subsidiary from the MNC headquarters and from the host country context. We also generalize traditional economics gravity... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Knowledge Flows; Cosine Similarity; Gravity Model; Multinational Firms and Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Business Headquarters; Immigration
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    Doing What the Parents Want?

    We examine how the external information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects the investment decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that the investment decisions of foreign subsidiaries in country-industries with... View Details

    • 05 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Doing What the Parents Want? The Effect of the Local Information Environment on the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations

    Keywords: by Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S. Verdi & Gwen Yu
    • January–February 2017
    • Article

    Africa's New Generation of Innovators

    By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Derek van Bever
    With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the continent, discouraged by widespread... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Economic Growth; Africa
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    • February 2012
    • Article

    A 'Core Periphery' Framework to Navigate Emerging Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, James Geraghty and Tarun Khanna
    We build on the emerging literature of influence-based models to study how multinational firms can navigate host governments. Our "core-periphery" framework posits that the actions that an MNC takes with actors in what we call the "periphery"—comprised of state,... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Framework; Biotechnology Industry; Massachusetts; Brazil; China; Costa Rica; France; India
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    • 2011
    • Article

    Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China

    By: Christopher Marquis, Jianjun Zhang and Yanhua Zhou
    We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present a number of resulting implications for doing business there. We identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory... View Details
    Keywords: Framework; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Alignment; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; China
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    • 01 Feb 1998
    • News

    New Releases

    research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that differentiation coupled with... View Details
    Keywords: Judith A. Ross
    • 12 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

    is left with no choice but to do so.) Nevertheless, there is slow and I believe inexorable movement in the direction of a WDC, because it makes sense for all concerned. It will take time but it will happen. Just the other day the CEO of a major View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 23 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

    exchange for the right to drill in developing countries. But should companies be responsible for government services? What happens when MNC investment moves on? Something has gone wrong with the spirit of corporate social responsibility... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 30 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 30, 2008

    direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 13 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 13, 2007

    deployment of their technology abroad. The paper demonstrates that when firms want to exploit technologies abroad, multinational firm (MNC) activity and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7

    and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012) Abstract Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Feb 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: February 11

    on this question. The first section provides background on MNCs and their rise. Section two summarizes attempts to promulgate global standards for MNCs in relation to human rights, labour, bribery, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

    multinational corporations, which more and more compete against other MNCs possessing similar size, access to resources, and market penetration. So what can be a source of competitive advantage? The ability to collaborate, share... View Details
    Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
    • 04 Nov 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: November 4

    of state-owned firms (SOEs) and multinational companies (MNCs) in at least two ways. First, we cross-fertilize the IB and SOEs literatures in their analyses of foreign investment behavior and introduce two arguments: the extraterritoriality argument, which helps... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 13

    investments. This result is consistent with the information environment helping MNCs monitor the subsidiary's investment decision. Cross-sectional tests show that the effect is larger when there is greater "distance" between the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 21

    multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Read the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Death of the Global Manager

    while confirming and further exploring some basic challenges that have, more or less, remained the same. "There are three core strategies that any MNC has to pursue to build layers of competitive advantage," Bartlett says.... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 04 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 4

    reorganization of the bureaucracy, and (c) an increase in monitoring by both the government and the general public. Correspondingly, we advance managerial implications that stem from these recent changes, illustrated by recent MNC and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 1, 2007

    find that MNCs expand the scale of their activities in reforming countries after IPR reform. MNCs that make extensive use of intellectual property disproportionately increase their use of inputs. There is an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne