Our data from local suppliers to AB Volvo's track 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 OFM-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 FNCs with a low-volume demand for high-quality products can result in technology-upgrading among small local suppliers who make necessary learning-investments.


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    Title :

    Learning from foreign TNCs: a study of technology upgrading by local suppliers to AB Volvo in Asia and Latin America


    Additional title:

    Lernen von ausländischen TNCs: Eine Studie der Technologieverbesserung durch lokale Lieferanten für AB Volvo in Asien und Lateinamerika


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    21 Seiten, 2 Tabellen, Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English