Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309450 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] The Journal of Technology Transfer [ISSN:] 1573-7047 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 1-36
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This study investigates the relationship between international inventor teams and the technological variety of multinational enterprises. We frame this relationship conceptually by considering two possible attributes of diversity in international inventor teams: cultural differences and heterogeneous knowledge. We employ a dataset for 454 multinational enterprises with 71,126 subsidiaries across 185 countries that applied for 139,066 priority patents during the period 2007–2014. Fixed-effects panel estimations indicate that international inventor teams are positively associated with both related and unrelated technological variety at the level of the MNE. Such relationships display diminishing marginal returns, pointing to management and coordination costs reducing the benefits from international inventor teams. In addition, we find that MNEs with higher technological innovation capability deal with the additional complexity from managing and coordinating international inventor teams by consolidating technological variety.
Subjects: 
Multinational enterprise
Inventor team
Technological variety
Knowledge sourcing
Knowledge recombination
JEL: 
O32
F23
O14
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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