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Upgrading to lead firm position via international acquisition: learning from the global biomass power plant industry.

In English

Författare

  • Ulrich Elmer Hansen
  • Niels Fold
  • Teis Hansen

Summary, in English

This article examines the case of a Chinese firm that has upgraded to lead firm position in the global biomass power plant industry mainly through acquisitions of technological frontier firms in Denmark. Sustaining the lead firm position was, however, challenged by difficulties in developing innovative capability. Drawing on the literature on (i) firm-level technological capability and (ii) knowledge transfer in international acquisitions, we explain the reasons for insufficient innovative capability building. Based on these empirical findings, we suggest maintaining the existing upgrading framework but applying it analytically in a more flexible manner that avoids linearity, hierarchy and segmentation while stressing the co-existence of and inter-relationships between the different types of upgrading.

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

131-153

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Economic Geography

Volym

16

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Human Geography

Nyckelord

  • mergers and acquisitions
  • technological capability
  • biomass power plant industry
  • China
  • industrial upgrading
  • global value chains

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1468-2702