Global integration and innovation: Multicountry knowledge generation within MNCs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Berry, Heather
• 署名单位: George Washington University
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2140
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 869-890
• 关键词: multicountry innovations; manufacturing integration; Multinational corporations; KNOWLEDGE; INNOVATION

摘要

This paper examines both conditions that can enable collaborative and combinative knowledge generation within multinational corporations (MNCs) and benefits that firms can achieve from these types of innovations. I posit that more basic relationships that have been established through manufacturing integration can enable multicountry collaborative innovations and that these innovations will bring together diverse knowledge that is likely to spawn further innovation within firms. Empirical analysis of a panel that includes comprehensive and confidential data on the worldwide operations of U.S. MNCs and their worldwide patents reveals robust support for these arguments. Overall, this paper broadens extant research on knowledge generation within MNCs by exploring both the antecedents and benefits of multicountry collaborative innovations. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.