Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
8-2016
Abstract
Prior work has shown that the strength of the intellectual property regime (IPR) in a host country influences offshore R&D to that country. Building on this work we propose that the strength of the IPR in a host country differentially influences the threat of knowledge leakage on projects that are produced for the location where the multinational firm is headquartered (home) versus the offshore location to which the R&D project is sent (host). We argue and show that when the host location has a weak IPR, fewer host inventors are involved in host R&D projects when compared to home R&D projects. We test our hypotheses using a dataset of patents held by US assignees, but coinvented in 43 host locations with differing IPR strength.
Keywords
intellectual property regime, R&D offshoring, multinational R&D strategy, global organization of work, knowledge spillover
Discipline
Organizational Behavior and Theory | Strategic Management Policy | Technology and Innovation
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
Publication
Strategic Management Journal
Volume
37
Issue
8
First Page
1715
Last Page
1733
ISSN
0143-2095
Identifier
10.1002/smj.2418
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
NANDKUMAR, Anand and Kannan SRIKANTH.
Right Person in the Right Place: How the Host Country IPR Influences the Distribution of Inventors in Offshore R&D Projects of Multinational Enterprises. (2016). Strategic Management Journal. 37, (8), 1715-1733.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4752
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2418
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