Innovation in multinational companies : organisational, international and regional dilemmas /
| Основен автор: | Mattes, Jannika. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Frankfurt am Main :
Peter Lang,
[2010]
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=488075 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Innovation in multinational companies. |
Съдържание:
- Overview; Table of contents; List of tables and figures XVII; List of abbreviatons XIX; 1 Innovation and globalisation: multinational companies as hosts of complicated learning processes 1; 2 Innovation in multinational companies and in regions: two independent settings? 9; 2.1 Learning in multinational companies and the internationalisation of innovation 12; 2.1.1 Strategic approaches: the emergence of multinational companies 14; 2.1.1.1 General strategic contributions 15; 2.1.1.2 Knowledge-specific strategic contributions 16.
- 2.1.2 Structural approaches: the organisational structure of multinational companies 172.1.2.1 General structural contributions 18; 2.1.2.2 Knowledge-specific structural contributions 24; 2.1.3 Cognitive approaches: learning in multinational companies 26; 2.1.3.1 Theories of organisational learning 27; 2.1.3.2 Organisational learning in multinational companies 30; 2.1.4 Conclusion: learning in multinational companies 34; 2.2 Learning in regions and the regionalisation of innovation 36; 2.2.1 Regions as competitive battlefields: clusters, agglomeration and economic geography 39.
- 2.2.2 Regions as social communities: industrial districts 422.2.3 Regions as locations of innovation: knowledge and technology 44; 2.2.3.1 Social approaches in the knowledge-based schools: innovative milieus and learning regions 44; 2.2.3.2 Socio-economic approaches: regional worlds of production 47; 2.2.3.3 Socio-economic institutionalism: regional innovation systems 49; 2.2.3.4 Beyond a purely spatial interpretation of the region 51; 2.2.3.5 Cognitive approaches to regions: a resume 55; 2.2.4 Conclusion: learning in regions 56.
- 2.3 The lack of connectedness between organisational and regional learning: the challenge of this work 593 Innovation dilemmas in projects and arenas 67; 3.1 Innovation as a threefold dilemma 70; 3.1.1 A dilemmatic perspective on innovation: preliminary considerations 71; 3.1.2 The dilemma between formalisation and flexibilisation 74; 3.1.3 The dilemma between concentration and dispersal 77; 3.1.4 The dilemma between regional embeddedness and disembeddedness 80; 3.1.5 Conclusion: innovation and learning in a dilemmatic view 86; 3.2 The organisation of innovation: projects and arenas 88.
- 3.2.1 Projects as a means of organising innovation 893.2.2 A functional close-up: arenas of innovation 91; 3.2.3 Hypotheses 99; 3.3 Innovation projects and arenas as devices of organisational learning 101; 4 The methodological challenge in understanding corporate innovation projects 105; 4.1 Qualitative case studies of corporate innovation 106; 4.1.1 Case studies as methodology 106; 4.1.2 Challenges in case-study based research 108; 4.1.2.1 Credibility 108; 4.1.2.2 Generalisability 110; 4.1.2.3 Contribution 111; 4.1.2.4 Coping with challenges 111; 4.2 Research procedure and study objects 112.