TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This study examines how foreign R&D investment may explain interfirm variations in productivity performance of home country firms in terms of spillovers. Many have studied spillovers from MNCs to host country’s firms, but there is still scarce evidence on spillovers from outward FDI to the home country. This study analyzes spillovers from foreign R&D investment and hypothesizes that the benefit of outward R&D spillovers occurs only when knowledge accumulated in foreign R&D centers is effectively transferred to MNCs’ parent companies at home. This benefit depends on the mandate of foreign R&D units, their embeddedness in the host economy, and their entry mode. Using detailed firm-level data for Switzerland, our findings seem to support our arguments.
VL  - 30
SN  - 978-1-78743-071-6, 978-1-78743-072-3/1571-5027
DO  - 10.1108/S1571-502720170000030012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-502720170000030012
AU  - Hamida Lamia Ben
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Outward R&D Spillovers in the Home Country: The Role of Reverse Knowledge Transfer
T2  - Breaking up the Global Value Chain
T3  - Advances in International Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 293
EP  - 310
Y2  - 2024/05/12
ER  -