Emerging multinationals innovating in emerging markets: motives and the role of location advantages and disadvantages
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Emerging multinationals innovating in emerging markets: motives and the role of location advantages and disadvantages |
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| Keywords | International Innovation Emerging Markets Motives Location |
| Description | This paper analyzes motives for investment by emerging multinationals in R&D and innovation-intensive activities in emerging markets. We focus on innovation by non-Chinese emerging MNEs in Central and Eastern Europe. We aim to contribute to the debates on the potentially different motives for investment and behaviors of MNEs from emerging and advanced countries and how MNEs’ locational decisions in terms of innovation in advanced vs emerging countries differ depending on their country of origin. Our main research question is: How do location advantages and disadvantages affect innovation motives of emerging multinationals in emerging markets? Our preliminary findings show that Indian MNEs' motives for innovation in emerging markets differ from other emerging market multinationals' (including Chinese MNEs) motives. Home country location disadvantages play partly a role in explaining the differences in motivations between emerging and other MNEs. |