Chapter 2 fulfills two purposes. First, it defines the research desiderates this study addresses in three streams of literature: economic geography, practice theoretical thought, and the multidisciplinary research field practice transfer. Each stream of literature is carefully examined and research …
In the current chapter, the empirical findings are systematically presented. This chapter empirically underpins the theorizations developed for this study presented in Chap. 4. To this aim, three selected skill formation practices transferred by German MNEs are presented: onboarding of new employees…
This chapter introduces the conceptual and empirical relevance of the presented study by showing how practice transfer in MNEs is an under-researched phenomenon in economic geography and an important real-world problem. It additionally argues for studying the transfer of production-related training …
