Abstract
ABSTRACT Where do businesses source the capabilities that influence their diversification? From the resource-based perspective, capabilities are located within the firm. For many economic geographers, capabilities are place-based and flow between firms in local areas. Others claim the capabilities that count emerge from non-local collaboration. The value added of this paper is a firm–establishment–patent dataset that helps identify the sources of capabilities regulating technological diversification in the establishments of multi-locational firms. Results show that capabilities located within establishments themselves are most important to the process of diversification, followed by firm capabilities and then place-based capabilities.
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