Based on insights from the spillover, international business, and knowledge management literatures, we study factors that enhance multinational enterprise (MNE) scaling and growth. Viewing MNEs and their employees as potentially rich knowledge sources, we draw attention to MNE-to-MNE knowledge spillover which fuel MNE scaling throughout organizations and employ panel data spanning 44,256 foreign and 21,246 domestic MNEs during 2004-2017. Our results show that (a) foreign MNEs benefit from depth and breadth of organizational knowledge spillover available in a geographic region, (b) domestic MNEs benefit from the depth of human capital knowledge spillover, and surprisingly, (c) domestic ownership hampers MNE scaling.

基于溢出效应、国际商务和知识管理文献的见解，我们研究了促进跨国企业 (MNE) 规模和增长的因素。将跨国公司及其员工视为潜在的丰富知识来源，我们提请注意跨国公司到跨国公司的知识溢出，这推动了跨国公司在整个组织中的扩展，并在 2004 年至 2017 年期间使用了涵盖 44,256 家外国跨国公司和 21,246 家国内跨国公司的面板数据。我们的结果表明，(a) 外国跨国公司受益于一个地理区域中可用的组织知识溢出的深度和广度，(b) 国内跨国公司受益于人力资本知识溢出的深度，而且令人惊讶的是，(c) 国内所有权阻碍了跨国公司的扩展.