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Título:
Knowledge Accumulation and Innovation in Internationalized Production Networks: The Automotive and the Iron and Steel Cases
Autor/es:
MORERO, HERNÁN ALEJANDRO
Reunión:
Congreso; 9th Globelics International Conference; 2011
Institución organizadora:
Globelics
Resumen:
The purpose of this
paper is to study the relative relevance of the domestic sources of knowledge
for the innovative performance of firms that operate in internationalized
production activities in a developing economy. A National System of Innovation
approach from a Production Network (PN) perspective is adopted to analyze two
internationalized PNs in Argentina: The Automotive (APN), organized around
foreign subsidiaries of Multinational Companies (MNCs); and the Iron and Steel
(IPN), organized around a domestic MNC?s headquarter. A Multiple Factor and a
Cluster Analysis were carried out using data for 163 firms from a specific
technological survey. A different innovative performance was identified
according to the complementarities of knowledge sources: The best performance
is positively related to a certain balance between domestic and foreign
sources, although in the IPN case the international linkages are less
important. The findings of this empirical paper are confirmatory of the working
hypothesis in the following direction: i) the level of internationalization of
industrial activities does not reduce nor extinguishes the importance of national
sources of knowledge; ii) for those internationalized PNs organized around domestic
MNCs headquarters, the best innovative performance underlines the relevance of
some foreign knowledge sources, as regards PNs organized around foreign
subsidiaries.