Abstract Hiring experts in centers of state-of-the-art technology is an important way in which a multinational enterprise (MNE) can gain competitive advantage, and yet use of this mechanism remains un

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Catching up by hiring: The case of Huawei (2020) · doi

  Abstract Hiring experts in centers of state-of-the-art technology is an important way in which a multinational enterprise (MNE) can gain competitive advantage, and yet use of this mechanism remains under-researched.

  Keywords: abstract hiring experts centers state technology important multinational enterprise gain competitive advantage mechanism remains researched
• Subsidiary size, internationalization, product diversification, and performance in an emerging market (2008) · doi

  Future research should examine larger firms with numerous foreign subsidiaries in developed countries, and should employ more fine‐grained measurements of subsidiary size to provide a clearer picture of subsidiary‐specific advantages.

  Keywords: subsidiary future examine larger firms numerous foreign subsidiaries developed countries employ fine grained measurements size
• Geographic scope and multinational enterprise performance (2003) · doi

  This study adds to our theoretical understanding of MNEs, and also provides a bridge between the mixed findings of prior research on multinationality by disentangling the unique effects of the latent subcomponents of geographic scope on firm performance.

  Keywords: adds theoretical understanding mnes provides bridge mixed prior multinationality disentangling unique effects latent subcomponents geographic