TY - BOOK AU - Heidenreich,Martin (ed) TI - Innovation and institutional embeddedness of multinational companies SN - 9780857934321 U1 - 338.881 PY - 2012/// CY - Cheltenham PB - Edward Elgar KW - International business enterprises KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects N1 - Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded knowledge, explores the utilization of external institutionally embedded knowledge in corporate innovation processes, and addresses the challenges of embeddedness ER -