How can multinational corporations combine the advantages of internationally distributed innovation processes with nationally and regionally embedded competencies and know-how? Editor
Heidenreich (Carl von Ossietzky U. of Oldenburg, Germany) presents 14 chapters that provide answers to that question by integrating contributions from regional studies and international
business studies on the strategies and varieties of corporate embeddedness. The contributions are organized into three sections examining the dilemma of globalization and localization and the
corresponding types of knowledge and corporate embeddedness; the essential role of national and regional knowledge infrastructures (comprised of companies, inter-organizational networks,
knowledge-based services, regional scientists, and R&D institutions) in embedded learning and innovation processes, and the cultural and political construction of corporate embeddedness.
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