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How does overseas labour quality affect multinational performance? A global value chain perspective
We test empirically for the existence of ‘reverse knowledge transfer’ effects using a firm-level panel of more than 1,600 manufacturing MNCs and over 2,400 overseas affiliates, covering 30 home and host countries. We find that highly-skilled labour in overseas affiliates has a significant impact upon the productivity of parent companies, suggesting the existence of a strong reverse knowledge transfer effect. We also establish that this knowledge transfer effect is greater (1) when the overseas affiliates are in related, rather than unrelated, industries; (2) when the overseas affiliates are downstream, rather than upstream, in the MNCs global value chains; (3) when the overseas affiliates involve horizontal, rather than vertical, FDI; and (4) when the overseas affiliates are wholly owned subsidiaries, rather than joint ventures.
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Strategic Management Society (SMS) 35th Annual International ConferenceEvent location
Denver, ColoradoEvent type
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3-6 Oct 2015Department affiliated with
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Conference theme: Strategy expanding: making sense of shifting field and firm boundariesFull text available
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