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Multinational Companies, Knowledge and Technology Transfer [electronic resource] : Turkey's Automotive Industry in Focus / by Alper S�onmez.

By: S�onmez, Alper [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Contributions to Management Science: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: XXVI, 371 p. 26 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319020334.Subject(s): Business | Entrepreneurship | Management | Industrial management | Globalization | Markets | Automotive engineering | Business and Management | Innovation/Technology Management | Automotive Engineering | Entrepreneurship | Emerging Markets/GlobalizationAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 658.514 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Multinational Companies, Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Theoretical Framework -- 3. Research Methodology and Design -- 4. Survey Findings: Descriptive Analysis -- 5. Survey Findings: Econometric Analysis -- 6. Findings and Analysis of the Interviews -- 7. Conclusion.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book provides evidence on how FDI leads to knowledge and technology transfers towards domestic firms by paying attention to the role of multinational companies. The author presents a comprehensive empirical research conducted at firm-level in the Turkish automotive industry. Using a representative sample of face-to-face in-depth interviews with top-executives and a survey of top level managers of domestic suppliers, the research analyzes the existence, channels, intensity and determinants, and the kind of transfers that occur at both inter- and intra-firm level in the industry. The author contends that policies aimed at attracting FDI flows should be reexamined under the findings and insights of this study since it is a necessary - although not sufficient - condition to have an efficient absorptive capacity level and/or skilled human capital stock in order to benefit from these flows. This study has policy implications for the automotive industry as well as practical recommendations for the public institutions and top-executives in emerging country companies and multinationals in order to conceive and implement science and technology policies in supporting the knowledge transfers.
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1. Introduction -- 2. Multinational Companies, Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Theoretical Framework -- 3. Research Methodology and Design -- 4. Survey Findings: Descriptive Analysis -- 5. Survey Findings: Econometric Analysis -- 6. Findings and Analysis of the Interviews -- 7. Conclusion.

This book provides evidence on how FDI leads to knowledge and technology transfers towards domestic firms by paying attention to the role of multinational companies. The author presents a comprehensive empirical research conducted at firm-level in the Turkish automotive industry. Using a representative sample of face-to-face in-depth interviews with top-executives and a survey of top level managers of domestic suppliers, the research analyzes the existence, channels, intensity and determinants, and the kind of transfers that occur at both inter- and intra-firm level in the industry. The author contends that policies aimed at attracting FDI flows should be reexamined under the findings and insights of this study since it is a necessary - although not sufficient - condition to have an efficient absorptive capacity level and/or skilled human capital stock in order to benefit from these flows. This study has policy implications for the automotive industry as well as practical recommendations for the public institutions and top-executives in emerging country companies and multinationals in order to conceive and implement science and technology policies in supporting the knowledge transfers.

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