This article examines the potential effect of anti‐globalization on a key attribute of multinational enterprises (MNEs)—the ability to transfer efficiently complex firm‐specific technological knowledge internationally. Anti‐globalization policies can suppress the transfer of complex technological knowledge by limiting the international transfer of intellectual property, restricting the free movement of scientists and engineers or by disharmonizing regulations across nations. Such suppression is shown to significantly change the global system in terms of the location of value‐adding activities, their organizational firm boundaries and the origin of MNEs. The model predicts that after a “shock” of anti‐globalization policies, which significantly increases international technological knowledge flow costs, a smaller number of firm and MNE location and control configurations emerges, and domestic firms become more dominant.

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对全球化，技术知识流动和新的全球体系的出现持怀疑态度

本文研究了反全球化对跨国企业（MNEs）的一个关键属性的潜在影响，即跨国有效地转移复杂的公司特定技术知识的能力。反全球化政策可以通过限制知识产权的国际转移，限制科学家和工程师的自由流动或通过不协调国家间的法规来抑制复杂技术知识的转移。在增值活动的地点，其组织边界和跨国公司的起源方面，这种压制被证明会极大地改变全球体系。该模型预测，在“冲击”了一系列反全球化政策之后，这会大大增加国际技术知识的流动成本，