Accumulation of indigenous innovative capabilities in firms in developing economies ('latecomer firms') may contribute to sustainable industrial development. To enhance understanding of capability accumulation processes ...

This study examines how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are knowledge-intensive service firms (hereafter “knowledge-intensive service SMEs“) accumulate innovative technological capabilities through learning linkages ...

This paper explores the nature of learning linkages through a qualitative and empirically grounded study of three sets of interactions in Brazil's mining industry and finds that: (1) these linkages vary along a spectrum ...

Despite the growing interest in innovation in the pulp and paper industry (PPI) from strategic management and institutional standpoints, little empirical research exists on the role of firms' technological capabilities and ...

This article is concerned with the characteristics of technological capabilities for agricultural innovation in indigenous public research organisations in developing economies. This issue is examined in the context of the ...

This article examines outcomes that are achieved by latecomer firms by accumulating innovative capabilities. By drawing on fieldwork evidence from pulp and paper firms in Brazil from 1950 to 2010, it was found that (1) ...

This article explores how a subsidiary of a multi-national enterprise (MNE) in an emerging economy embeds with multiple knowledge sources, both in its corporate network (internal) and in the host country (external), to ...

This paper is concerned with innovation capability accumulation paths and the role of learning processes in MNE-subsidiaries in emerging economies. Drawing on evidence from subsidiaries of the ICT industry in Brazil ...

This article reviews research in the past 25 years on learning processes as a source of innovation capability building in firms from developing/emerging economies, which are known as latecomers. We find that if latecomer ...

This paper explores variability across a set of subsidiaries in a given local context and the same industry in terms of innovative performance as an outcome of the manner and extent to which they embed within both corporate ...