TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose – This study explores subsidiaries' local network embeddedness and how it contributes to localised subsidiary innovation output from a social network perspective. In particular, we are interested in analysing the consequences of local network density, diversity and, subsidiaries' network position on its innovation outcomes.Design/methodology/approach – Data are derived from a longitudinal quantitative study of the entire R&D network within one of the largest life science cluster in Germany, the ‘BioRegion Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck’.Findings – Our findings indicate that the size (density) of the local network has an inverted U-shaped effect on the innovation outcomes of MNC subsidiaries. Our findings further indicate that a strong brokerage position in the local network has a significant positive influence on the innovation output while a position in the core of the network has a significant negative effect on the innovation output.Research implications – Our results shed new light on the relationship between local embeddedness, brokerage, the danger of overembeddedness and innovation output of MNC subsidiaries.
VL  - 6
SN  - 978-1-78052-115-2, 978-1-78052-114-5/1745-8862
DO  - 10.1108/S1745-8862(2011)0000006016
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1745-8862(2011)0000006016
AU  - Al-Laham Andreas
AU  - Bort Suleika
ED  - Alain Verbeke
ED  - Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann
ED  - Rob Van Tulder
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Chapter 13 The Innovation Outcomes of MNC Subsidiaries' Local Embeddedness: Evidence from the German ‘Bioregion Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck’ Local Network
T2  - Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm
T3  - Progress in International Business Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 291
EP  - 323
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -