Driffield, Nigel, Love, James H and Yang, Yong (2016) Reverse international knowledge transfer in the MNE: (where) does affiliate performance boost parent performance? Research Policy, 45 (2). pp. 491-506. ISSN 0048-7333
![]() |
PDF (For REF only)
- Published Version
Restricted to SRO admin only Download (1MB) |
Abstract
We examine the extent to which the knowledge or technological capability of foreign affiliates actually enhances the performance of their parent companies. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 1600 multinationals and more than 4000 of their overseas affiliates, covering 46 home and host countries. We find considerable evidence of enhanced parent productivity as a result of their affiliates’ performance, which we interpret as evidence of reverse knowledge transfer from affiliates to parents. This effect is robust to different tests including IV estimation and a falsification exercise based on unconnected ‘matched’ affiliates. We find that both physical and strategic location markedly affects the affiliate-parent relationship, and that distance reduces the positive impact that affiliate performance has on that of the parent.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Schools and Departments: | University of Sussex Business School > Business and Management |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Depositing User: | Yong Yang |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2016 08:23 |
Last Modified: | 05 Mar 2021 11:15 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/62300 |
View download statistics for this item
📧 Request an update