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Firm-Strategies and the Research-Intensity of US MNEs’ Overseas Operations: An Analysis of Host-Country Determinants

In: Global Competition and Technology

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  • Marina Papanastassiou

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Previous studies of the determinants of overseas R&D in MNEs have analysed the differences, between firms or industries, in the proportion of total R&D that is carried out in subsidiaries abroad.1 In particular, these studies have approached consensus in suggesting that internationalisation of R&D has very broadly reflected the internationalisation of sales and production. However it has also been very persuasively argued2 that, within this general picture of market-supporting overseas R&D, the nature and intensity of the work carried out in a particular country will differ considerably according to the role played by the operations it is required to support. This chapter seeks to analyse the determinants of the R&D-intensity of US subsidiaries in particular host countries, in order to investigate the relation between the strategic role of these subsidiaries’ operations and their need for technological support.

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  • Marina Papanastassiou, 1997. "Firm-Strategies and the Research-Intensity of US MNEs’ Overseas Operations: An Analysis of Host-Country Determinants," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Global Competition and Technology, chapter 7, pages 153-179, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25856-7_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25856-7_7
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    1. Pietro Moncada-Paterno-Castello & Peter Voigt & Marco Vivarelli, 2011. "Evolution of Globalised business R&D: Features, drivers, impacts," JRC Working Papers on Corporate R&D and Innovation 2011-02, Joint Research Centre.
    2. Cai, Huifen & Boateng, Agyenim & Guney, Yilmaz, 2019. "Host country institutions and firm-level R&D influences: An analysis of European Union FDI in China," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 311-326.

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