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Innovation and knowledge driven by a focal corporation: the case of the Autoeuropa supply chain
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Traditionally, transnational subsidiaries in peripheral
regions were labelled ‘cathedrals in the desert’ as
they did not establish significant links with local or
regional producers and did not control the decisionmaking process. The work of economists and
geographers has tended to be heavily influenced by
the branch plant stereotype. However, this rather
basic vision of reality is now changing as inward
investments promoted by transnational corporations
(TNCs) become more embedded in the region. It
seems there is a new strategy of foreign firms in
relation to local firms and institutions, as evidenced
by the technological knowledge governance and
learning processes in supply chains polarized by
some TNC subsidiaries.
In this paper we first assess the role of
technological externalities as a new industrial
location factor in the era of globalization. These
externalities reinforce localization of innovative
firms rather than stimulate spatial dispersion. Even
TNC subsidiaries are more embedded in the host
regions as globalization accelerates. Second, we
analyse the features of the Autoeuropa (AE) supply
chain in Portugal, namely the type of suppliers (firm
size, origin of capital, markets and so forth) and their
position in the hierarchical supply chain of AE. Finally,
we assess external knowledge and innovation driven
by Autoeuropa itself among suppliers, and we discuss
the main benefits as well as the basic problems of
such a form of knowledge creation and diffusion.
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Automobile industry Innovation Inward investment Knowledge
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Vale, M. (2004). Innovation and knowledge driven by a focal corporation: the case of the Autoeuropa supply chain. European Urban and Regional Studies, 11(2), 124–140. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776404036252.
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SAGE Publications