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Learning from foreign TNCs: a study of technology upgrading by local suppliers to AB Volvo in Asia and Latin America.
- Source :
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International Journal of Technology Management . 2009, Vol. 48 Issue 1, p56-76. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Our data from local suppliers to AB Volvo's truck and bus-plants in Brazil, China, India and Mexico show that foreign TNCs contribute to technology-learning and improved adaptive technological capabilities, which help suppliers to expand businesses with domestic and international OEM-customers in many industries and markets. This support the evolutionary perspective that technology transfers from industrialised to developing economies are based on local inter-firm linkages arising from regular manufacturing activities of foreign TNCs. A policy lesson is that business-linkages with foreign TNCs with a low-volume demand for high-quality products can result in technology-upgrading among small local suppliers who make necessary learning-investments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02675730
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Technology Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 44051772
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTM.2009.024600