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Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking book goes some way to fill this gap in the literature and as such, will prove invaluable to academics, R&D managers, regional policy makers and students with an interest in international business, business economics, regional studies and organization studies.
Trade ReviewThis wonderful volume brings together contributions mainly from the innovation literature, whose findings are in a sense quite familiar, but which in this collection are juxtaposed in such a way as to highlight their common institutional underpinnings. This is very much due to the efforts of the editor, whose insightful introduction and editorial vision brings out several interesting and emerging themes from this collection of papers. I think this volume breaks new ground in highlighting the embeddedness of MNE subsidiaries in multiple contexts, and it will be of considerable interest to scholars engaged with institutional analysis. However, I also believe that researchers interested in regional embeddedness, the geography of innovation, and knowledge management will find new angles to their work in this collected volume.
--- Sarianna M. Lundan, University of Bremen, Germany
Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Debate on Corporate Embeddedness Martin Heidenreich PART I: CHALLENGES AND VARIETIES OF CORPORATE EMBEDDEDNESS 2. Regional Embeddedness of Multinational Companies and their Limits: A Typology Martin Heidenreich and Jannika Mattes 3. The Multi-home-based Corporation: Solving an Insider–Outsider Dilemma Örjan Sölvell 4. MNCs between the Local and the Global: Knowledge Bases, Proximity and Distributed Knowledge Networks Bjørn T. Asheim, Bernd Ebersberger and Sverre J. Herstad 5. MNCs, Clusters and Varieties of Innovative Impulse Philip Cooke PART II: KNOWLEDGE INFRASTRUCTURES AS EMBEDDING DEVICES 6. Simulating the Role of MNCs for Knowledge and Capital Dynamics in Networks of Innovation Petra Ahrweiler, Michel Schilperoord, Nigel Gilbert and Andreas Pyka 7. Technological Capabilities and the Regional Embeddedness of Multinational Enterprises. A Case Study of Germany and the UK Simona Iammarino, Jan-Philipp Kramer, Elisabetta Marinelli and Javier Revilla Diez 8. The Organizational Decomposition of Innovation and Territorial Knowledge Dynamics: Insights from the German Software Industry Simone Strambach and Benjamin Klement 9. The Impact of Regional Institutional Characteristics on the Location of MNCs – a European Perspective Knut Koschatzky and Elisabeth Baier PART III: THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONSTRUCTION OF CORPORATE EMBEDDEDNESS 10. Modes of Regional Embeddedness: Companies in Seven European Regions Compared Dieter Rehfeld 11. The Pôles de Compétitivité: Regional Innovation Clusters with a French Touch Christoph Barmeyer and Katharina Krüth 12. Multinational Companies and the Production of Collective Goods in Central and Eastern Europe Bob Hancké 13. The Role of Multinational Corporations in the National Innovation Systems of the EU New Member States Rajneesh Narula and José Guimón 14. Conclusion: Corporate Embeddedness as a Strategic and Dynamic Process of Skilled Actors Jannika Mattes and Martin Heidenreich Index
