Global integration and innovation: Multicountry knowledge generation within MNC s
研究了跨国公司内多国协作创新的条件与收益，发现通过制造整合建立的基本关系能促进多国协作创新，并带来更多后续创新。
This paper examines both conditions that can enable collaborative and combinative knowledge generation within multinational corporations ( MNCs) and benefits that firms can achieve from these types of innovations. I posit that more basic relationships that have been established through manufacturing integration can enable multicountry collaborative innovations and that these innovations will bring together diverse knowledge that is likely to spawn further innovation within firms. Empirical analysis of a panel that includes comprehensive and confidential data on the worldwide operations of U.S. MNCs and their worldwide patents reveals robust support for these arguments. Overall, this paper broadens extant research on knowledge generation within MNCs by exploring both the antecedents and benefits of multicountry collaborative innovations . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.