Right Person in the Right Place: How the Host Country IPR Influences the Distribution of Inventors in Offshore R&D Projects of Multinational Enterprises

• Main Authors: NANDKUMAR, Anand, Kannan SRIKANTH
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: intellectual property regime; R&D offshoring; multinational R&D strategy; global organization of work; knowledge spillover; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Strategic Management Policy; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4752; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5751/viewcontent/Nandkumar_et_al_2016_Strategic_Management_Journal__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 a...