Inventors’ Mobility from MNC Subsidiaries: The Role of Institutional Distance and Experience

Inventors’ outward mobility from MNC subsidiaries is a concern to them because it often leads to knowledge spillovers to competitors and could jeopardise MNCs’ global R&D investments and their competitive advantage. In order to explain inventors’ outward mobility in foreign countries, we anchor our study to institutional theory and focus on the role of formal and informal institutional distance between the host and the MNC’s home country. We...