The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....

This paper examines the evolution of a skew distribution of firm sizes from the viewpoit of the "Bounds" approach to market structure. It confines attention to the role played by non-strategic factors (statistical independence, and cost side eddects). A model is proposed, which leads toa...

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation.

This article argues that the body of foreign direct investment (FDI) literature in general and the ownership, location, and internalization (OLI) paradigm in particular would be enriched if finance-specific factors are explicitly incorporated as drivers of FDI. We suggest that financial...

This study has analyzed the relatioonship between strategical factors and the outcomes when technical consumtancy firms (TCFs) submit tender documents in order to obtain foreign assignment.

This paper analyzes the simultaneous relationship between R&D and foreign sales in Swedish multinational enterprises in the manufacturing sector. We argue that this two-way relationship should especially apply to multinationals based in small open economices due to the firms' high dependence on...

FDI has received surprisingly little attention in theoretical and empirical work on openness and growth. This paper presents a theoretical growth model where MNCs directly affect the endogenous growth rate via technological spillovers. This is novel since other endogenous growth models with...

This paper examines whether Swedish multinational enterprises tranfer R&D- generated knowledge to their foreign affiliates. The empirical results suggest that such technology transfer takes place from parent compagnies to affiliates, espacially in the case of newly established affiliates.

This paper presents a model of R&D-driven growth without scale effects where firms can engage in both horizontal and vertical R&D activities.

This paper analyzes the utilization of R&D results in the home and foreign plants of Swedish maltinational enterprises (MNEs). The empirical findings indicate that the firms' R&D undertaken in the home country is used as an input in both the home and foreign plants of the MNEs.