“…Multinational Enterprises (MNE) are increasingly adopting a global strategy for their activities of research and development (R&D); consequently, academics have shown growing interest in this phenomenon since the 1990s.The most debated areas of interest include the classification of the ac-tivities carried out abroad (Kuemmerle, 1999;Y. Sun, 2003), the choice of the location of R&D centers (Dougherty, Inklaar, McGuckin, & Van Ark, 2003;Belderbos, Lykogianni, & Veugelers, 2008), the organization of R&D networks all around the world (Alfaro & Chen, 2009) and the MNE strategies to run a global R&D process (Arora, Fosfuri, & Gambardella, 2001;Chesbrough, 2003;Ernst, 2005).…”