J. Myles Shaver

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically examine if entry mode choice (acquisition versus greenfield) influences foreign direct investment survival and find that greenfield entries have survival advantages compared to acquisitions, but the significance of this effect disappears once they account for self-selection of entry mode in the empirical estimates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that firms with the best technologies, human capital, training programs, suppliers, or distributors will gain little, yet competitively suffer when their technologies, employees, and access to supporting industries spill over to competitors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined product innovation and patent application counts of a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms from 1990 to 1997, and found that exporting is associated with innovation, and that exporters can often access diverse knowledge inputs not available in the domestic market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that these barriers can frequently be circumvented by using existing multinationals as interna- tional conduits for small and medium size firms' innovations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the international R&D expansion activities, research capabilities, and patent output of 65 Japanese pharmaceutical firms from 1980 to 1991 and found that firms benefit from international research and development only when they possess existing research capabilities in the underlying technologies.