The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage for multinational corporations. The success of these engagements depends heavily on tapping host country pools of localized expertise. To achieve this foreign subsidiaries have...

The internationalisation of corporate R&D opens up the chances to participate in international knowledge sharing. This increasingly motivates firms to accelerate the pace and extent of their international R&D activities in order to enhance innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and...

Competitors can be valuable sources and partners for innovation activities. Against the background of international expansion of firms and increased international competition, the R&D collaborations with international competitors (international co-opetition) is becoming an increasingly...

Wechselwirkungen von Wissen, Macht und Organisationsstrukturen strategisch zu nutzen ist zu einem zentralen Thema der Globalisierung geworden. In diesem Kräftefeld werden wichtige und folgenreiche Innovationen generiert – allerdings, so zeigt diese Untersuchung, in durchaus variablen...