Abstract
The double diamond model contends that both home and host locations affect MNE’s international competitiveness. Drawing on the view that multinationals act as a link between home and host, we extend this framework and investigate the indirect impact of host on home location with reference to R&D internationalisation in emerging economies. 0 By resorting to a sample of 221 large OECD regions from which R&D investments departed to the top six host emerging economies, we evaluate the contribution of different OECD R&D laboratories to the home knowledge creation of the OECD investing region. 0 We test the complementarity between domestic R&D and different value-added R&D activities carried out by different technology-intensive R&D laboratories in terms of home knowledge creation of OECD investing regions. 0 Our findings suggest that the activity of R&D laboratories focusing on adaptation complements domestic R&D in terms of knowledge creation regardless of the technological intensity of their operations, while the activity of medium technology-intensive R&D laboratories focusing on development is complementary to domestic R&D.
Original language | English |
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Journal | M I R: Management International Review |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 251–273 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISSN | 0938-8249 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Overseas R&D laboratories
- Home region knowledge creation
- Emerging markets