Go abroad or have strangers visit? On organizational search spaces and local linkages
研究了跨国公司如何连接本地创新合作网络与外部信息源，发现总部位于本国境内的跨国公司网络最有助于子公司结合本地合作与内部创新搜索。
This article explores the role of multinational enterprise groups in linking geographically bounded innovation collaboration networks to external sources of information. To investigate if the information content of the corporate network of affiliates increases with internationalization, we distinguish first between uninational and multinational networks. We then compare affiliation with MNE networks headquartered within the focal economy to affiliation with networks which are controlled from outside. Using Norwegian firm level innovation survey data, we find that the former is associated with the highest likelihood that affiliates combine local collaborative knowledge development outside the corporate network, and innovation search within it.