Global Competition and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Strategic Evolution and Technology in MNEs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Global Interdependence, MNE Strategy and Technology

      • Robert Pearce

      Pages 3-12

   3. The Implications for Host-Country and Home-Country Competitiveness of the Internationalisation of R&D and Innovation in Multinationals

      • Robert Pearce

      Pages 13-49

   4. Motivation and Market Strategies of US Foreign Direct Investments: An Analysis of Host-Country Determinants

      • Marina Papanastassiou

      Pages 51-77

3. Overseas R&D and Technological Diversity in MNEs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Motivation and Organisation of Decentralised R&D

      • Satwinder Singh

      Pages 81-99

   3. Overseas R&D Laboratories in MNEs: An Analysis of their Roles and Motivations

      • Satwinder Singh

      Pages 101-122

   4. Global-Innovation Strategies of MNEs and European Integration: The Role of Regional R&D Facilities

      • Marina Papanastassiou

      Pages 123-151

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

      • Marina Papanastassiou

      Pages 153-179

4. Industry and Country Cases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. The Potential Role of Romania’s Technological and Scientific Capacity in Attracting FDI: An Exploratory Analysis of its National System of Innovation

      • Julia Manea

      Pages 183-215

   3. The European R&D Operations of Japanese Multinationals

      • Robert Pearce

      Pages 217-238

   4. The Globalisation of R&D in Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals and Biotechnology: Some New Evidence

      • Gurkanwal Singh Pooni

      Pages 239-273

5. Policy Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275

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   2. Industrial Policy, MNEs and National Technology

      • Robert Pearce

      Pages 277-283

6. Back Matter

   Pages 285-294

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Multinationals are increasingly taking internationalised approaches to the ways in which they generate new knowledge and develop innovative new products from it in the pursuit of global competitiveness. These new perspectives in MNEs' technological behaviour open up important additional possibilities for those countries that play host to operations of these companies. This book analyses in detail the new dimensions in MNEs' approach to global competitiveness and the role played in this by overseas R & D units, and discusses the implications of this for host countries' growth and welfare.

• European integration
• foreign direct investment
• globalization
• innovation
• Motivation
• organization

• University of Reading, UK

  Robert Pearce

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