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1998 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Locating R&D Abroad: The Role of Adaptation and Knowledge-Seeking
verfasst von : Gunnar Fors
Erschienen in: The Geography of Multinational Firms
Verlag: Springer US
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Larger multinational firms commonly undertake R&D at home as well as in their foreign affiliates. However, MNFs still perform the major part of their R&D at home. This has been attributed to factors such as scale economies in R&D, the need of proximity to the company headquarters, and the desire to maintain strategic knowledge within firms (x7Caves, 1996, ).