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Innovation and control in the multinational firm: a comparison of political and contingency approaches

This study focuses on control mechanisms used by multinational corporations (MNCs) to manage their extra-national R&D units. Drawing on both the literature on organizational power and contingency theory, this study develops and empirically tests a set of hypotheses aimed at explaining how headquarters control their overseas R&D units. Data collected from 134 R&D units of German MNCs serve to test the hypotheses. Results highlight the importance of the units' R&D mandate and its interdependence in explaining control mechanisms. Moreover, they indicate a relatively weak predictive power of political approaches compared to contingency approaches..Printed journal

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PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana1
Penerbit John Wiley & Sons.,
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Subjek Innovations
Multinational corporations
Research & development
R&D
studies
Hypothesis testing
ISBN/ISSN 1432095
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