TY - CHAP
T1 - Global Innovation and R&D for Knowledge Creation
T2 - The Case of P&G, Unilever and Kao
AU - Iguchi, Chie
AU - Hayashi, Takabumi
AU - Nakayama, Atsuho
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Chie Iguchi, Takabumi Hayashi and Atsuho Nakayama.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The objective of this chapter is to identify a directional shift toward the decentralization of scientific technological knowledge-creation by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in the global market and to determine the extent to which MNEs leverage local knowledge. Therefore, we investigate how firms can retain competitive advantages from the viewpoint of global knowledge-creation. In doing so, we seek to overcome intrinsically static views in the resource-based view and clarify sources of contemporary MNEs’ dynamic capabilities (Cantwell, 1995; Dunning, 1996; Teece, 2009: 136–175; Wernerfelt, 1984). We also examine the dynamic capabilities of contemporary MNEs, which can be seen as MNE-specific from our analysis of the roles of overseas subsidiaries’ R&D capabilities. In particular, we clarify the relationship between the mechanisms of innovative activities and knowledge creation by MNEs and sources of global competitive advantage.
AB - The objective of this chapter is to identify a directional shift toward the decentralization of scientific technological knowledge-creation by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in the global market and to determine the extent to which MNEs leverage local knowledge. Therefore, we investigate how firms can retain competitive advantages from the viewpoint of global knowledge-creation. In doing so, we seek to overcome intrinsically static views in the resource-based view and clarify sources of contemporary MNEs’ dynamic capabilities (Cantwell, 1995; Dunning, 1996; Teece, 2009: 136–175; Wernerfelt, 1984). We also examine the dynamic capabilities of contemporary MNEs, which can be seen as MNE-specific from our analysis of the roles of overseas subsidiaries’ R&D capabilities. In particular, we clarify the relationship between the mechanisms of innovative activities and knowledge creation by MNEs and sources of global competitive advantage.
KW - Dynamic Capability
KW - Foreign Direct Investment
KW - Host Country
KW - Knowledge Creation
KW - National Origin
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U2 - 10.1057/9781137312211_4
DO - 10.1057/9781137312211_4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84964881183
T3 - Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series
SP - 65
EP - 86
BT - Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -
