List Books » Knowledge Flows, Governance and the Multinational Enterprise: Frontiers in International Management Research
Authors: Volker Mahnke (Editor), Torben Pedersen
ISBN-13: 9781403933119, ISBN-10: 1403933111
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Volker Mahnke is Associate Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the Copenhagen Business School.
Torben Pedersen is Professor of International Business at Copenhagen Business School.
This book contributes to the understanding of Knowledge Governance in the Multinational Corporation. Intra-firm and inter-firm processes of knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation have attracted increasingly managerial and scholarly interest. However the relation between particular knowledge processes, determinants of organizational choices, governance mechanisms, their relevant costs and benefits, and associated strategic advantages remain less well understood. To address these challenges, this book gives answers to the following questions. What are key challenges of governing knowledge in the multinational corporation? How do contingencies influence relavent trade-offs? How do sets of governance mechanisms respond to problems of cognition and incentives?
List of Figures | vii | |
List of Tables | viii | |
List of Contributors | ix | |
Part I | Fundamental Perspectives on Knowledge Governance | |
1 | Knowledge Governance and Value Creation | 3 |
2 | The Use of Network Theory in MNC Research | 18 |
3 | Multinational Enterprises and Competence-Creating Knowledge Flows: A Theoretical Analysis | 38 |
Part II | Governing External Knowledge Relations | |
4 | Do Good Threats Make Good Neighbours? Social Dilemmas in MNC Networks | 61 |
5 | Learning across Borders: Organizational Learning and International Alliances | 81 |
6 | Learning versus Protection in Inter-Firm Alliances: A False Dichotomy | 108 |
7 | Relationship Dynamics: Developing Business Relationships and Creating Value | 130 |
Part III | Governing Internal Knowledge Relations | |
8 | Identifying Leading-Edge Market Knowledge in Multinational Corporations | 151 |
9 | Knowledge Flows in International Services Firms: A Conceptual Model | 177 |
10 | The Dilemmas of MNC Subsidiary Transfer of Knowledge | 195 |
Part IV | Knowledge Governance and Business Development | |
11 | Governing MNC Entry in Regional Knowledge Clusters | 211 |
12 | Learning and Networking in Foreign-Market Entry of Service Firms | 226 |
13 | Plumbing and Plugging-In: Networking by Venture Capitalists in Europe and the USA | 249 |
Index | 269 |