TY - JOUR
T1 - Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation
AU - De Marchi, Valentina
AU - Cainelli, Giulio
AU - Grandinetti, Roberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - We address the questions of whether multinational (MNC) subsidiaries are more likely to introduce green innovation (GI) than domestic firms and how intra-MNC resources are likely contribute to this effort. Using the Community Innovation Survey for 14 European countries and adopting a knowledge-based view of the MNC, our results suggest that subsidiaries have an advantage of foreignness in GI as respect to domestic firms, especially when they have an innovation mandate (i.e., competence-creating subsidiaries). Our findings also support that intra-MNC and extra-MNC cooperation for innovation increases subsidiary probability to introduce GIs, the two being substitutes.
AB - We address the questions of whether multinational (MNC) subsidiaries are more likely to introduce green innovation (GI) than domestic firms and how intra-MNC resources are likely contribute to this effort. Using the Community Innovation Survey for 14 European countries and adopting a knowledge-based view of the MNC, our results suggest that subsidiaries have an advantage of foreignness in GI as respect to domestic firms, especially when they have an innovation mandate (i.e., competence-creating subsidiaries). Our findings also support that intra-MNC and extra-MNC cooperation for innovation increases subsidiary probability to introduce GIs, the two being substitutes.
KW - Complexity
KW - Green innovation
KW - Intra-MNC cooperation
KW - Knowledge flows
KW - Multinational corporation
KW - Subsidiaries
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2022.102027
DO - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2022.102027
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133712583
SN - 0969-5931
VL - 31
JO - International Business Review
JF - International Business Review
IS - 6
M1 - 102027
ER -