What is it about?
Corporate R&D internationalization is today perceived as a strategy intended for enhancing the knowledge of large firms within a highly-polarized global cognitive space. Two main questions arise and, as such, are incorporated as the two complementary themes of our contribution: what are the risks of wasting resources used by MNFs when they establish or take over laboratories abroad? What strategies do they apply to harmonize relations between their various R&D entities and, as such, help reduce these risks?
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Why is it important?
R&D internationalization strategies generate a great diversity of knowledge. Consequently, these MNFs should develop inter-entity management skills, for which we provide a few of the keys to success. The factors determining the effectiveness of the articulation of knowledge sharing systems were not really part of any systematic analysis. Such an analysis would have been an opportunity to specifically appraise this.
Perspectives
Our approach could indeed improve social interaction-related issues. Our results may greatly add to social interaction theories by attempting, above all, to enhance “sender - receiver” type models, on a MNF network scale (Gupta and Govendarajan, 2000, Noorderhaven and Harzing, 2009).
Professor Claude Joseph Paraponaris
Université Aix Marseille - LEST CNRS
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This page is a summary of: Diversity and knowledge sharing, VINE, August 2012, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/03055721211267477.
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