Lucia Piscitello

TL;DR: Cantwell et al. as discussed by the authors examined the role of spillovers and externalities in influencing the recent siting of foreign-owned research and development activities in European regions, and found that the location of such research tends to agglomerate depending upon the potential for the following sources of spillover and externality: intra- industry spillovers or specialization externalities associated with the presence of a wide-ranging collection of firms active in the same sector; inter-industry spill overs or diversity externalities resulting from the co-presence of firms working in different fields;

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that increases in competence increased corporate technological diversification until the early 1970s, and then again more recently, due to the formation of internationally integrated networks within firms.

TL;DR: This paper examined the roles of different sources of family firm heterogeneity and the context in shaping the determinants, processes, and outcomes of business internationalization, and set out an agenda for further research aimed at advancing a more fine-grained and contextualized understanding of internationalization in family firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the driving factors of these location choices have differing influences on indigenous and foreign investors, and that foreign investors suffer from a condition of adverse asymmetry in information costs compared to insiders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the changing nature of the competitive advantages of places, the competitive advantage and strategies of firms, and the governance structure of IB networks in what has also been called the third industrial revolution.