Managing internal embeddedness in multinational corporations’ R&D subsidiaries: An evolutionary perspective on the automotive industry in Silicon Valley

Technovation ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 102422
Author(s):  
Amadou Lô ◽  
Martha Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Internal Embeddedness

scholarly journals Changing Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment in China’s Automotive Industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-96
Author(s):  
Lingling Wang ◽  
Bo Fan ◽  
C. Bulent Aybar ◽  
Aysun Ficici
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Negative Role

China’s automotive industry has developed dramatically in recent years as more and more major multinational corporations (MNCs) in this industry began to invest in China.  Most of these investments have developed in the form of joint-ventures with Chinese state owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper contributes to the current literature by studying the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the productivity of the automotive industry in China using panel data during the 1999 –2008 period. Channels through which FDI may directly and indirectly affect the productivity are investigated using pooled ordinary least squares model (POLS) and fixed effects model (FES) to estimate the influence of FDI on productivity in the automotive industry. The results suggest that FDI plays a negative role in this industry and suggests that there is a need for Chinese government to modify its policies and practices in order to improve the productivity of such a key industry in the Chinese economy.

Concentrated Economic Power and Silicon Valley

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Home Base ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
The North ◽  
Dominant Tendency ◽  
Italian Model

Silicon Valley is the computer and microelectronics capital of America. To analysts from different academic disciplines and ideological persuasions, the economy of Silicon Valley has many faces. In the most romantic characterization, the Valley's astonishing success as home base for a myriad of companies that design, produce, and export computers, workstations, microchips, disk drives, and software is mainly a story about supremely—even belligerently—independent entrepreneurs. According to a second interpretation, the Valley is a full-fledged ‘industrial district’ on the north central Italian model, made up of a dense thicket of mostly small and medium-sized (but also some quite large) ‘flexible specialists’ that alternately cooperate and compete with one another, that are embedded in a local political economy with a shared culture and norms, and that may be well connected to the rest of the world but whose interfirm production relationships are thought to be highly localized. There is also a third perspective. Silicon Valley was created by, and remains profoundly dependent on, major multinational corporations and on the fiscal and regulatory support of the national government—especially in the ‘person’ of the US Department of Defense. The Valley is fundamentally a world headquarters of, or at least an important node within, global networks of big firms and their small firm subcontractors and suppliers, and, as such, is subject to the same contradictory tendencies toward concentration of power but decentralization of production that are coming to characterize the entire global market-based economic system. The three aspects of Silicon Valley's political economy—rampant entrepreneurship, an unusually high degree of interfirm circulation of engineering labor and other signs that have become associated with district-like behavior, and the visible hand of major corporations and their government—university partners in shaping the region into a base from which to manage operations that are executed beyond the Valley's domain—are in fact not mutually inconsistent. In this paper, however, I argue that the third constitutes the dominant tendency driving the reproduction of this vibrant regional economy, and has done since the years after World War 2.

scholarly journals Porter’s Diamond Factor Conditions Determinant: Effect on Automotive Industry of Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahmed Butt ◽  
Paul Katuse ◽  
Juliana M. Namada
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Probability Method ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Parametric Statistics ◽  
The Government ◽  
Cross Sectional Design

The purpose of the study was to investigate Porter’s diamond attribute factor conditions influence on the performance of firms in the automotive industry of Pakistan. Research methodology used positivism philosophy, data collection instrument used was the structured questionnaire after conducting the pilot study; cross-sectional design was constructed, probability method constituted the data collection approach, parametric and non-parametric statistics used to analyze the data, and hypothesis tested using regression model. The sample size was 194 respondents. The research study found out that there is non-availability of empirical studies on Porter’s diamond in Pakistan. Porter’s diamond factor conditions determinant conceptual and theoretical theme has the potential to provide CA to the industry. Conclusively the study pointed out the underlying force of factor conditions being one of the attributes of Porter’s diamond having significant influence on the performance of the automotive industry of Pakistan. The study examined the automotive industry exclusively from the perspective of private, multinational corporations (MNCs) and joint ventures. There are strategic practical implications of the study findings for academia, practitioners, and government constituencies. The significance of the study lies in the pragmatic perspective provided to the automotives industry players and the government policy makers in realizing the national competitive advantage (NCA) by internalizing the factor conditions as an attribute of Porter’s diamond.  

Microstructure of an extruded rapidly solidified Al-8Fe-2Mo alloy

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 548-549
Author(s):  
W. T. Donlon ◽  
J. E. Allison ◽  
S. Shinozaki
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Fuel Economy ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Al Alloys ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Strength And Durability ◽  
Rapidly Solidified ◽  
Whitney Aircraft

Light weight materials which possess high strength and durability are being utilized by the automotive industry to increase fuel economy. Rapidly solidified (RS) Al alloys are currently being extensively studied for this purpose. In this investigation the microstructure of an extruded Al-8Fe-2Mo alloy, produced by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Goverment Products Div. was examined in a JE0L 2000FX AEM. Both electropolished thin sections, and extraction replicas were examined to characterize this material. The consolidation procedure for producing this material included a 9:1 extrusion at 340°C followed by a 16:1 extrusion at 400°C, utilizing RS powders which have also been characterized utilizing electron microscopy.

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