How can MNEs benefit from internationalizing their R&amp;D across countries with both weak and strong IPR protection?

Mavroudi, Eva; Kafouros, Mario; Jia, Fu; Jiang, Hong

doi:10.1016/j.intman.2022.100994

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“…Reimagining and innovating also require governments and businesses to create appropriate environments and frameworks to shape interactions between businesses and other organizations as well as the flow of ideas, knowledge and technology (Mavroudi et al. , 2023). This is a salient point because an enabling system in some countries might not be optimal for others.…”

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Reimagining Business and Management as a Force for Good

McPhail,

Kafouros,

McKiernan

et al. 2024

British J of Management

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The literature has called on business and management scholars to help understand the global challenges we face and to find solutions. The prevailing narratives that have implicitly informed our understanding of business and management knowledge and practice as good need to be reimagined. We question whether our existing theoretical lenses, along with fundamental underlying assumptions about what constitutes labour, value and its creation, and the nature of assets, liabilities and materiality, act as a barrier to advancing business and management practice as a force for good and explore whether we need to go beyond applying existing theory to new research questions. Both Agency Theory and Stakeholder Theory have proven ineffective in aligning social and economic interests, while our disciplinary and publishing customs constrain our imagination and impede conceptions of fundamentally new ways of practising business. We explore why we need to reimagine business and management; what we mean by reimagining business and management and what it means to be a force for good. We conclude that if the purpose of business needs to be reimagined, business schools will also need to change to be major catalysts in this process.

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confidence: 99%

Reimagining Business and Management as a Force for Good

McPhail,

Kafouros,

McKiernan

et al. 2024

British J of Management

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“…knowledge spillover, intellectual property rights [IPR], data limitations and policy implications) necessitate research on R&D internationalization. Global data from the OECD, Eurostat and national statistical offices show a considerable increase in overseas R&D expenditure by multinational enterprises (MNEs) from approximately €73bn in 2003 to €124bn in 2017 (Dachs and Zahradnik, 2022), indicating that it is an evolving phenomenon (Mavroudi et al , 2023; Urbig et al , 2022; Zhao et al , 2021). However, using traditional R&D internationalization strategies may no longer be effective or profitable for many MNEs due to the globalized nature of markets, with new entrances of firms from emerging and transitioning economies (Williamson, 2014).…”

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Future directions of R&D internationalization in international business

Anwar,

Nujen,

Solli-Sæther

2024

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Purpose This paper aims to provide a focused review of international business (IB) literature on research and development (R&D) internationalization, assessing the progress and proposing future research directions. Design/methodology/approach Total 167 peer-reviewed articles from IB journals (following the ABS list 2021 from 4* to 2) published between 1996 and 2022 are critically reviewed using a science-mapping approach. This paper used Bibliometrix R-package to analyze the retrieved bibliometric data. Additionally, a strategic diagram was developed to comprehend the maturity stage of various R&D internationalization concepts. Findings Most studies on R&D internationalization are influenced by perspectives from advanced-economy multinational enterprises (AMNEs), while perspectives from emerging-economy multinational enterprises (EMNEs) are underrepresented. Considering the characteristics of emerging economies, firms from these locations might embark on and develop their R&D internationalization strategies differently. Investigating the emerging economy perspectives will enrich the understanding of R&D internationalization strategies for both AMNEs and EMNEs. Additionally, bringing different underutilized theoretical perspectives will help to untangle the anomalies observed in extant literature. Originality/value This paper is among the few to scrutinize the IB literature on R&D internationalization by applying a unique combination of bibliometric techniques and a content analysis approach. By complementing existing reviews and providing fresh insights into the phenomenon, it offers a conceptual framework that can be used as a basis for further research on R&D internationalization.

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