Managing global research and development in China: Patterns of R&amp;D configuration and evolution

Li, Jiatao; Yue, Deborah R.

doi:10.1080/09537320500211367

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“…Nevertheless, evidence shows that subsidiary assignments are evolving (Almeida & Phene, 2004). Furthermore, exploitation could support cross-border knowledge creation, however at a slower pace than exploration (Chiesa, 1996;Li & Yue, 2005).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, outcomes of exploitation lie in adapting to home-country developed products to the local market, which yields minor improvements on existing specific advantages. Exploration, however, allows for a more fundamental increase in a firm's knowledge base (Gassmann & Keupp, 2007;Li & Yue, 2005). Exploration mission consists in crossing new technological areas, in which the host country is relatively more advanced.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several authors acknowledge the growing presence of both types of assignments during globalization, i.e., existing specific-advantages exploitation and new specific-advantages exploration (Gassmann & Keupp, 2007;Li & Yue, 2005;Macpherson & Holt, 2007). Exploitation and exploration assignments are devoted to upgrade the knowledge base of the global firm.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Strategic and Organizational Evolutions of High-Tech SME on Global Market

2011

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The "OLI paradigm" of Dunning (1977) claims that firm internationalization is addressed toward the exploitation of home-based specific advantages. However, evidence shows that SMEs are increasingly internationalizing their activities in order to enrich their resource pool. In this regard, a reinterpretation of the OLI paradigm came out with a new perspective suggesting that "foreign direct investment" (FDI) is increasingly oriented toward asset augmentation.Correspondingly, the purpose of this theoretical paper is to suggest a set of principles that could inform on how global small and medium-sized enterprises grow in the international marketplace when investing abroad.

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“…R&D units in foreign countries have gained more responsibilities and competencies besides the still-existing traditional mode of adapting products developed in the home country and technical support for production abroad (Reger, 2004).Trends over the last decade have seen China and India emerge as attractive R&D destinations for U.S. (Hegde and Hicks, 2008).In a recent study, (Li and Yue, 2005) suggested that international research and development processes have two key dimensions: functional focus (either research oriented or development oriented) of R&D activities and geographic dispersion or concentration of R&D sites. These two dimensions lead to four categories of R&D configuration in a host country (Figure 1 Changes in telecommunications and data processing capabilities make it possible to coordinate research, marketing and production operation around the world (Acs and Preston, 1997).…”

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Literature, Principle and the Basics of Network Value Creation in R&D: The Relationship with Economy

2008

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Abstract:The internationalization of R&D network is a recent phenomenon. In this knowledgebased environment, the driving forces for this phenomenon are digitization, the internet, and high-speed data networks that are keys to address many of the operational issues from design to logistics and distribution. From the other direction to surviving in the highly competitive industry, requires strategies to collaborate with or compete with suitable firms within a network in the New Product Development process. The growing internationalization of R&D activities challenges multinational corporations (MNCs) to formulate technology strategies and manage increasingly diffuse and diverse networks of R&D laboratories and alliances in the context of disparate national institutions. Research and development functions are fundamental drivers of value creation in technology-based enterprises. Successful R&D is a function of invention and R&D network. This paper studies R&D network issues from the perspective of their impact on value creation. It is observed that most of the research activities encourage and support R&D networks and influences in economic development. Introduction:

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“…to multinational R&D presence in China (Boutellier et al, 2008;Rowen et al, 2008), either independently or in cooperation with indigenous firms (Li and Yue, 2005). Over the period, almost all major global players have become entrenched in this less regulated and highly competitive industry (McKinsey, 2003), making it of considerable interest for examining the determinants of the organization choice for R&D, given the diversity of the complexity of technological problems to be solved and of the participants' knowledge endowments.…”

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The R&D Boundaries of the Firm: A Problem-Solving Perspective

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Holden

2016

International Journal of the Economics of Business

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This paper considers, theoretically and empirically, how different organization modes are aligned to govern the efficient solving of technological problems. The data set is from the Chinese consumer electronics industry. Following the problem solving perspective (PSP) within the knowledge-based view (KBV), we develop and test several PSP and KBV hypotheses, whilst controlling for some relevant transaction cost economics (TCE) and other variables, in an examination of the determinants of the firms' R&D organization choice. The results show that a firm's existing knowledge base is the most important explanatory factor. Problem complexity and decomposability are also found to be important, but it is suggested, contrary to the view of PSP, that they are better treated as separate variables, and that equity-based alliances tend to be reserved for the most complex problems.

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Managing global research and development in China: Patterns of R&D configuration and evolution

Cited by 43 publications

References 21 publications

Strategic and Organizational Evolutions of High-Tech SME on Global Market

Strategic and Organizational Evolutions of High-Tech SME on Global Market

Literature, Principle and the Basics of Network Value Creation in R&D: The Relationship with Economy

The R&D Boundaries of the Firm: A Problem-Solving Perspective

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