RT Journal Article
T1 Foreign knowledge sources and innovation: Differences across large and small and medium-size multinational enterprises (MNEs)
A1 Rodríguez-Gulías, María Jesús
A1 Fernández López, Sara
A1 Rodeiro-Pazos, David
K1 Cross-border knowledge sourcing
K1 Internationalisation spillovers
K1 Foreign knowledge sources
K1 R&D-based innovation
K1 Multilevel analysis
AB Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can take advantage of cross-border knowledge sourcing and internationalisation spillovers. Nevertheless, the influence of these two foreign knowledge sources on innovation has been scarcely analysed in the MNEs. The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, to apply multilevel modelling in the study of MNEs' innovation. Second, to analyse how the region's foreign knowledge sources affect innovation based on R&D in MNEs. Third, to explore whether this influence differs between large and small and medium-size MNEs (SM-MNEs). We used multilevel panel data analysis in a sample of 1471 Spanish MNEs over the period 2009 to 2016. The results indicate that the firm-level factors have a stronger relationship with the propensity to innovate in MNEs than the region's foreign knowledge sources. Nevertheless, the effect of these region's knowledge sources in explaining the differences across MNEs in innovation is more substantive in large MNEs than in SM-MNEs
PB Elsevier
SN 1059-0560
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33798
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33798
LA eng
NO International Review of Economics & Finance, Volume 92, 2024, Pages 741-757
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026