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Ivo Zander - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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superstar inventors towards a people centric perspective on the geography of technological renewal in the Multinational Corporation
Research Policy, 2014Co-Authors: Katarina Blomkvist, Philip Kappen, Ivo ZanderAbstract:This paper develops a people-centric perspective on the geographical dispersion of technological renewal in the Multinational Corporation (MNC). We contend that a large proportion of all foreign technological advancements can be attributed to a handful of individual inventors, suggesting a blockbuster effect of subsidiary technological development. This suggests that analyses carried out at the subsidiary or firm level disguise significant yet largely unexplored variation in the technological contributions made by individual members of these foreign units. To support this proposition, the paper draws upon an original data set that comprises all of the advanced foreign subsidiaries of 21 Swedish MNCs between 1893 and 2008, and follows their patenting activity in order to document the distribution of inventive activity, both across and within individual subsidiaries. The findings at the subsidiary level show that the distribution of technological activity and contribution to the overall Multinational group is significantly skewed; the paper then empirically explores the assumption that a similar distribution also applies at the level of individual inventors. The results point to a pattern whereby most inventors make only occasional and limited technological contributions and, instead, more significant numbers of new technological discoveries are attributable to a select group of exceptionally inventive individuals. In the light of the results, we suggest the fruitfulness of applying a people-centric perspective on the sources of sustained competitive advantage of the MNC, the management of geographically dispersed capabilities in the Multinational network, and the geographical sources of technological renewal in the MNC.
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win place or show how foreign investment strategies contribute to the technological growth of the Multinational Corporation
Long Range Planning, 2014Co-Authors: Katarina Blomkvist, Philip Kappen, Ivo ZanderAbstract:This paper investigates the sources of technological growth of the Multinational Corporation. We conceptualize and shed empirical light on whether foreign investment strategies based on advanced greenfield subsidiaries, acquired subsidiaries, or a combination of both increase the likelihood of entry into technologies that represent new additions to the MNC's technology portfolio. Repeated events analyses of the complete U.S. patenting activity in 226 foreign locations of 21 Swedish Multinationals reveal a substantially higher likelihood of entry into new technologies among investment strategies based on foreign acquisitions, as opposed to investment strategies based on greenfield establishments only. To the extent that MNC managers seek to enhance technological and strategic renewal through the expansion of foreign operations, the findings suggest that foreign investment strategies that involve the use of acquisitions are and should be the preferred alternative.
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The formation of international innovation networks in the Multinational Corporation: an evolutionary perspective
Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002Co-Authors: Ivo ZanderAbstract:The Formation of International Innovation Networks in the Multinational Corporation : An Evolutionary Perspective
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Cross-Border Innovation in the Multinational Corporation : A Research Agenda
International Studies of Management & Organization, 2000Co-Authors: Ivo Zander, Örjan SölvellAbstract:AbstractThis paper addresses an increasingly debated issue in international business literature: the emergence of cross-border innovation in the Multinational Corporation. It identifies duplication and diversification of advanced technological capabilities as increasingly important dimensions of the Multinational network, and proceeds to investigate how growth along these dimensions has led to the formation of cross-border innovation processes in the Multinational Corporation. Based on a review of existing empirical studies, we suggest three research avenues to shed further light on innovation processes in the Multinational Corporation: (1) a more thorough investigation of patterns of knowledge exchange in the Multinational network; (2) how these patterns are influenced by industry-, fim-, and technology-related variables; and (3) how cross-border innovation may constitute a significant competitive advantage of the Multinational Corporation.
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how do you mean global an empirical investigation of innovation networks in the Multinational Corporation
Research Policy, 1999Co-Authors: Ivo ZanderAbstract:Abstract Literature on technological activity in the Multinational Corporation has recently emphasized the overall advantages from establishing internationally dispersed technological capabilities. This paper builds a taxonomy of innovation networks in the Multinational Corporation, differentiating between international duplication and international diversification of advanced technological capabilities. Cluster analysis of major Swedish Multinationals suggests significant differences in the geographical dispersion of technological capabilities, implying different approaches to the upgrading of competitive advantage and unequal pre-conditions for becoming engaged in internationally integrated research efforts.
Ulf Holm - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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subsidiary marketing knowledge and strategic development of the Multinational Corporation
Journal of International Management, 2006Co-Authors: Ulf Holm, Deo D SharmaAbstract:Abstract This paper explores distinctive marketing knowledge of subsidiaries as an important resource contributing to the performance of the Multinational Corporation (MNC). Two different paths are analyzed. The first is the direct effect of the usage of subsidiary marketing knowledge on the perceived performance of other MNC units. The second is the indirect effect in which an MNC's usage of subsidiary marketing knowledge affects its performance via capability development in technology and market expansion within the MNC. Using data on 237 MNC subsidiaries in Sweden, six hypotheses are tested in a LISREL model. The results indicate that an MNC's usage of subsidiary marketing knowledge directly affects its performance. Additionally, the results reveal a strong relation between subsidiary marketing knowledge and the subsidiary's impact on development of the capabilities of other MNC units' technology and their expansion on the market, which in turn, positively impacts the performance of the MNC.
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division headquarters go abroad a step in the internationalization of the Multinational Corporation
Journal of Management Studies, 1995Co-Authors: Mats Forsgren, Ulf Holm, Jan JohansonAbstract:Division Headquarters go Abroad - A Step in the Internationalization of the Multinational Corporation
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headquarters knowledge of subsidiary network contexts in the Multinational Corporation
International Studies of Management and Organization, 1995Co-Authors: Ulf Holm, Jan Johanson, Peter ThileniusAbstract:Competence development in the Multinational Corporation (MNC) is driven by competition in local industrial clusters, and the operating units engaged in those clusters are critical in the development of the MNC, as Porter, Solvell, and Zander (1990) posit. They assume that the operations of the single, unique subsidiary in relation to its unique industrial setting are critical in the development of the MNC. In this view, competence development is not created by organizational arrangements; rather, it is the outcome of a struggle in the market. But it does not take place in response to general market forces; it is driven by interaction with customers, suppliers, and competitors in the industrial cluster.
Natalie Djodat - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Revisiting Ghoshal and Bartlett’s Theory of the Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network
Management International Review, 2017Co-Authors: Natalie Djodat, Dodo Knyphausen-aufseßAbstract:More than 25 years after its appearance, Ghoshal and Bartlett’s seminal paper ‘The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network’ stands as a widely recognized but insufficiently understood contribution to the international management literature. This paper reviews related literature, celebrates and critically discusses Ghoshal and Bartlett’s work and proposes ways to address its main limitations, which are a lack of a defined set of parameters describing networks and the delineation of network boundaries. We then translate their theory into concrete propositions and thereby bring it closer to empirical testing. Taking a subsidiary-network perspective, we expand the authors’ work by combining network and entrepreneurship literature and theoretically deducting positive effects of networks on subsidiary entrepreneurial orientation. This yields entirely new insights and a more holistic view of the effects of subsidiary networks.
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revisiting ghoshal and bartlett s theory of the Multinational Corporation as an interorganizational network
Management International Review, 2017Co-Authors: Natalie Djodat, Dodo Zu KnyphausenaufsesAbstract:More than 25 years after its appearance, Ghoshal and Bartlett’s seminal paper ‘The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network’ stands as a widely recognized but insufficiently understood contribution to the international management literature. This paper reviews related literature, celebrates and critically discusses Ghoshal and Bartlett’s work and proposes ways to address its main limitations, which are a lack of a defined set of parameters describing networks and the delineation of network boundaries. We then translate their theory into concrete propositions and thereby bring it closer to empirical testing. Taking a subsidiary-network perspective, we expand the authors’ work by combining network and entrepreneurship literature and theoretically deducting positive effects of networks on subsidiary entrepreneurial orientation. This yields entirely new insights and a more holistic view of the effects of subsidiary networks.
Udo Zander - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Corporation
Journal of International Business Studies, 1993Co-Authors: Bruce Kogut, Udo ZanderAbstract:Firms are social communities that specialize in the creation and internal transfer of knowledge. The Multinational Corporation arises not out of the failure of markets for the buying and selling of knowledge, but out of its superior efficiency as an organizational vehicle by which to transfer this knowledge across borders. We test the claim that firms specialize in the internal transfer of tacit knowledge by empirically examining the decision to transfer the capability to manufacture new products to wholly owned subsidiaries or to other parties. The empirical results show that the less codifiable and the harder to teach is the technology, the more likely the transfer will be to wholly owned operations. This result implies that the choice of transfer mode is determined by the efficiency of the Multinational Corporation in transferring knowledge relative to other firms, not relative to an abstract market transaction. The notion of the firm as specializing in the transfer and recombination of knowledge is the foundation to an evolutionary theory of the Multinational Corporation
Torben Pedersen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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organizing knowledge processes in the Multinational Corporation an introduction
Journal of International Business Studies, 2004Co-Authors: Torben PedersenAbstract:This Introduction discusses the contrast between, on the one hand, the current popularity of addressing MNC organization in knowledge terms and, on the other, the lack of adequate understanding of many of the causal mechanisms and contextual factors in relations between knowledge processes and organizational factors. A number of the relevant research challenges are identified, and it is clarified how the five articles in this Focused Issue addresses some of these.
