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PublicationCoordination in global R&D organizations: an examination of the role of subsidiary mandate and modular product architectures in dispersed R&D organizations(Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 2014-10-12)
;Widenmayer, BastianInternational research and development (R&D) operations require a significant amount of coordination between the headquarters and the subsidiaries in order to integrate the dispersed activities in one final product. This article explores what mechanisms multinational companies (MNCs) use to coordinate their overseas R&D units. Based on a multiple case study involving nine MNCs with overseas R&D subsidiaries of varying mandates, we find that R&D sites with high technology and/or market orientation tend to be coordinated by informal mechanisms while sites with little technology and/or market orientation tend to be coordinated by formal mechanisms. Furthermore, it appears that this relationship is strongly affected by the product's architecture: while rather complex R&D activities are conducted at the systems level and at sites with high technology orientation, less complex R&D activities are conducted at the component level at sites with low technology and market orientation. Finally, the findings suggest that modular product architectures have a coordinating effect in global R&D activities which have the power to lower firms' overall coordination effort. The findings bear important implications for the effective coordination of MNCs' international R&D subsidiaries.Type: journal articleJournal: TechnovationVolume: 34Issue: 10Scopus© Citations 23 -
PublicationThe role of intermediaries in cross-industry innovation processesIn this article, we investigate the role intermediaries play in the cross-industry innovation process. Intermediaries are external institutions that support companies in their innovative activities. They are frequently used to bridge gaps between different industries. Our research focuses on the question of which capabilities an intermediary should have in order to achieve success in initiating a cross-industry innovation. Our empirical base consists of a survey of 107 European manufacturing companies and an analysis of six collaborative cross-industry innovation projects. The company survey is used to identify the capabilities an intermediary should have during each of the three phases of the innovation process. The cross-industry projects, each of which involves a Swiss or a German industrial company and an intermediary, provide us with analyzable data. We conclude our study by identifying three types of intermediary: the innovation broadener, the innovation leverager, and the innovation multiplier.Type: journal articleJournal: R & D ManagementVolume: 41Issue: 5
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PublicationThe crowdsourcing process : an intermediary mediated idea generation approach in the early phase of innovationIntermediary mediated crowdsourcing (CS) has become a widely adopted open innovation approach for idea generation in various companies of different industries. Despite many success stories and a large body of literature in the fields of idea generation, online competition and open innovation, little is known about the intermediary mediated CS process in the early stage of the innovation process. An explorative, qualitative and quantitative multi-case study research design was applied to extract the longitudinal data that were analysed in this research. Based on 12 CS projects executed by nine Swiss companies from four industries on the Swiss intermediary CS platform atizo.com, five important phases of the intermediary mediated CS process were identified and described. Additionally, important tasks within each phase which ought to be considered by companies when engaging in an intermediary mediated CS project for idea generation were elaborated.Type: journal articleJournal: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation ManagementVolume: 14Issue: 4
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PublicationCoordination and collaboration modes of global R&D in multinational companies( 2011-06-28)
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PublicationCentripetal forces in the international R&D organization of Chinese MNCs - trends and organizational patterns( 2011-11-11)
;Zedtwitz, MaxThe internationalization of the firm is a well established area of research within the business and management literature. While downstream value chain activities like sales and production are the first functions to be internationalized (Johanson & Vahlne, 1977), research and development (R&D) is one of the last - and thus one of the least - internationalized functions. Research on international R&D has attracted greater scholarly attention in the mid-1990s when multinational companies (MNCs) invested more aggressively in overseas R&D to support downstream functions and to access valuable knowledge and talent (Pearce, 1999; von Zedtwitz & Gassmann, 2002). In the absence of innovation-intensive MNCs from developing countries, past research has largely focused on the R&D internationalization of Western MNCs. However, in the wake of the economic rise of China, India and other developing countries, a new cohort of MNCs has emerged from quite different institutional environments compared to developed countries (Peng, 2004; Wright et al., 2005). In particular, MNCs from developing countries often leapfrog the evolutionary internationalization process and directly acquire missing assets such as brands, know-how, or supply chains (Luo & Tung, 2007). The question therefore arises if our current theories of the internationalization of R&D in these firms need to be revised and adapted. In this paper we investigate the internationalization path of the R&D of Chinese MNCs and the type of organizational structure they pursue. We use the R&D internationalization model developed by Gassmann and von Zedtwitz (1999) as our reference framework to analyze how, if at all, the R&D internationalization process is different from the development paths and organization forms of Western MNCs.Type: conference paper -
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PublicationCrowdsourcing : An alternative idea generation approach in the early innovation process(Internat. Soc. for Professional Innovation Management, 2010-06-06)
;Muhdi, Louise ;Friesike, SaschaBoutellier, RomanType: conference paper -
PublicationCrowdsourcing Methode und Prozess(Springer Gabler, 2017)
;Friesike, Sascha ;Pechlaner, HaraldPoppe, Xenia-IsabelType: book section -