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Host Country Competition and Technology Transfer by Multinationals / Magnus Blomstrom, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blomstrom, Magnus.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4131.
- NBER working paper series no. w4131
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1992.
- Summary:
- This paper examines whether rivalry in host country markets may force multinational films to increase the technology transfer to their foreign affiliates. Such technology flows should be interesting from the perspective of the host country and its firms, since they would increase the potential for "spillovers". Using detailed (unpublished) industry data from Mexican manufacturing industry we find that indicators for local competition are positively related to the technology imports of foreign owned affiliates. The effects appear to be strong in consumer goods industries, which suggest that foreign multinationals are especially sensitive to the local market environment when barriers to entry in the form of complex technology or high capital requirements are relatively low.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 1992.
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