Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms
研究了多地点企业各分支机构的技术多样化能力来源，发现分支机构自身能力最重要，其次是公司整体能力和地方环境能力。
Where do businesses source the capabilities that influence their diversification? From the resource-based perspective, capabilities are located within the firm. For many economic geographers, capabilities are place-based and flow between firms in local areas. Others claim the capabilities that count emerge from non-local collaboration. The value added of this paper is a firm–establishment–patent dataset that helps identify the sources of capabilities regulating technological diversification in the establishments of multi-locational firms. Results show that capabilities located within establishments themselves are most important to the process of diversification, followed by firm capabilities and then place-based capabilities.