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Overview

John Cantwell is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these areas, Cantwell has contributed extensively to subfields such as Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main topics of Cantwell's scholarly work focus on International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Innovation and Knowledge Management, Global trade and economics, Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, Family Business Performance and Succession, Firm Innovation and Growth, and Innovation Policy and R&D.

Cantwell has published in a broad array of venues, including multiple contributions to the Academy of Management Proceedings, the Journal of International Business Studies, Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global Competitiveness, Journal of International Business Policy, and the Journal of Economic Geography.

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Making connections: Social networks in international business" (2020) in Journal of International Business Studies
  • "The local co-evolution of firms and governments in the Information Age" (2020) in Journal of International Business Studies
  • "Income divergence and global connectivity of U.S. urban regions" (2020) in Journal of International Business Policy
  • "International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities" (2024) in Journal of Economic Geography
  • "OFDI activity and urban-regional development cycles: a co-evolutionary perspective" (2022) in Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global Competitiveness

Frequent collaborators include Harald Bathelt, Pallavi Shukla, Maximilian Buchholz, Salma Zaman, and Marianna Marra. These coauthors have worked on various aspects of innovation, international business, and regional economic development alongside Cantwell.

Best Publications

  • Technological Innovation and Multinational Corporations

    John Cantwell

  • MNE competence‐creating subsidiary mandates

    John Cantwell;Ram Mudambi

  • The Globalisation of Technology: What Remains of the Product Cycle Model?

    John Cantwell

  • An evolutionary approach to understanding international business activity: The co-evolution of MNEs and the institutional environment

    John Cantwell;John H. Dunning;Sarianna M. Lundan

  • Technological globalisation and innovative centres: the role of corporate technological leadership and locational hierarchy

    John Cantwell;Odile Janne

  • A survey of theories of international production

    John Cantwell

  • Multinational Corporations and European Regional Systems of Innovation

    John Cantwell;Simona Iammarino

  • Location and the multinational enterprise

    John Cantwell

  • Recent Location of Foreign-owned Research and Development Activities by Large Multinational Corporations in the European Regions: The Role of Spillovers and Externalities

    John Cantwell;Lucia Piscitello

  • Accumulating technological competence: its changing impact on corporate diversification and internationalization

    J Cantwell;L Piscitello

  • Multinational Corporations and the Location of Technological Innovation in the UK Regions

    John Cantwell;Simona Iammarino

  • Knowledge connectivity: An agenda for innovation research in international business

    Marcelo Cano-Kollmann;John Cantwell;Thomas J Hannigan;Ram Mudambi

  • The Eclectic Paradigm in the Global Economy

    John Cantwell;Rajneesh Narula

  • Innovation and Competitiveness

    John Cantwell

  • Creating competition?: Globalisation and the emergence of new technology producers

    Suma Athreye;John Cantwell

  • Physical attraction and the geography of knowledge sourcing in multinational enterprises

    John A. Cantwell;Ram Mudambi

  • Internationalization in the information age: A new era for places, firms, and international business networks?

    Juan Alcácer;John Cantwell;Lucia Piscitello

  • The frontier of international technology networks: sourcing abroad the most highly tacit capabilities

    John Cantwell;Grazia D. Santangelo

  • The location of technological activities of MNCs in European regions: the role of spillovers and local competencies

    John Cantwell;Lucia Piscitello;Lucia Piscitello

  • Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy

    John Cantwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucia Piscitello
Lucia Piscitello Polytechnic University of Milan
John H. Dunning
John H. Dunning University of Reading
Ram Mudambi
Ram Mudambi Temple University
Simona Iammarino
Simona Iammarino London School of Economics and Political Science
Rajneesh Narula
Rajneesh Narula University of Reading
Ilan Alon
Ilan Alon Ariel University
Alfonso Gambardella
Alfonso Gambardella Bocconi University
Harald Bathelt
Harald Bathelt University of Toronto
Ash Amin
Ash Amin University of Cambridge
Geoffrey Jones
Geoffrey Jones Harvard University

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