Beschreibung:
Multinational Enterprises and Innovation contributes to a better understanding of the organisational choices between spatially concentrated and internationally distributed forms of innovation as well as between internal and external constellations by analysing the relationship between organisational, regional, national and European arenas of knowledge production and knowledge transfer.
1. Introduction: Regional Learning in Multinational Enterprises 2. Innovation in Multinational Enterprises: Between Organisational Control and Social Embeddedness 3. The Methodological Approach 4. The Corporate Dimension of Innovation: An Interplay between Formalisation and Flexibilisation, and Con¬Cen¬Tra¬Ti¬On and Dispersal 5. The Regional Embeddedness of Corporate Innovation 6. Regionalised Innovation Policies in Germany and France 7. Similarities and Differences of Leadership and Cooperation in German and French Innovation Projects: A Contrastive Perspective 8. Patterns of Industrial R&D across Europe 9. A Multi-Territorial Approach To Corporate Innovation in MNEs - Concluding Remarks