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Perspectives on Host Locations

In: Innovation and the Multinational Firm: Perspectives on Foreign Subsidiaries and Host Locations

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  • Alessandra Perri

    (Universita’ Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

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This chapter employs EG interpretative lenses to analyze host locations as key contexts for MNC subsidiaries’ innovation. In particular, it offers a general perspective on critical constructs such as place and space, distance and border effects and national and sub-national geographical scales. Moreover, it provides with a basic systematization of the different spatial configurations that, along the years, have been proposed for the study of innovation in the geographical space. Finally, building on recent insights calling for the integration between IB and EG in the study of MNCs in the geographical space, it argues that an approach encompassing both the IB theoretical focus on the organization and the EG emphasis on the location is especially relevant for the study of MNCs’ geographically distributed innovation activities.

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  • Alessandra Perri, 2015. "Perspectives on Host Locations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Innovation and the Multinational Firm: Perspectives on Foreign Subsidiaries and Host Locations, chapter 4, pages 86-104, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-55544-1_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137555441_5
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