Organizational innovation in the multinational enterprise: Internalization theory and business history

Lopes, Teresa da Silva; Casson, Mark; Jones, Geoffrey

doi:10.1057/s41267-018-0156-6

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“…Of course, complex organizational forms are not a uniquely modern phenomenon, as Da Silva Lopes, Casson & Jones (2019) explain. Their paper avoids the 'traditional' dichotomy of market-versus-hierarchy, highlighting that, when faced with market imperfections, MNEs have often responded by modifying their organizational structure and the role of headquarters to effectuate more efficient knowledge transfer.…”

Section: The Papers In the Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Applying and advancing internalization theory: The multinational enterprise in the twenty-first century

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Internalization theory has provided a resilient analytical framework that explicitly or implicitly underlines much of International Business scholarship. Internalization theory is not a monolithic body of knowledge; instead, it has devolved into several 'streams', each of which focuses on the interests of particular epistemic communities, while also acting as a more generic organizing framework for those more broadly interested in its application to real-world challenges. Following a review of the various streams, we trace the frontiers of current research of the broader internalization framework and identify emerging themes raised by the papers in the special issue. These include transaction cost considerations in the bundling and recombination of assets across diverse contexts, the growing relevance of quasi-internalization, the theoretical challenges of (bounded) rationality for internalization theory, and the increasing disconnect between ownership, control and responsibility. These developments point to new research frontiers for scholars looking to apply or advance internalization theory.

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Section: The Papers In the Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Applying and advancing internalization theory: The multinational enterprise in the twenty-first century

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“…In this paper, I build on prior work examining the provenance of the multi-divisional firm (M-form). Historical perspectives, such as present study, enrich our understanding of the emergence and evolution of large corporations (Birkinshaw 2018;da Silva et al 2018) and corporate headquarters (Menz et al 2015). However, rather than focus on the M-form's allocative efficiencies (e.g., Chandler Jr 1962) or implicit contracts (Williamson 1985), I shall argue that a particular set of technologies reward organizations characterized by unified governance, hierarchy, and direct authority.…”

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Setting the stage for corporate headquarters: a technological explanation for the rise of modern industrial corporations

Baldwin

2019

J Org Design

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This paper combines theories of organizational design with theories of production to provide a novel perspective, which helps explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated "modern" corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I describe the technology of a flow process with bottlenecks and show how this technology rewards unified governance, a hierarchical organization structure, and the use of direct authority. These properties in turn became the organizational hallmarks of "modern" industrial corporations with central corporate headquarters.

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“…Innovation management represents a complex of activities connected with the initiation of changes up to their application [2]. At the same time other emphasize that innovation management should be accompanied by building an organization that can learn and innovates [7][8][9][10][11][12]. Given the crucial role of innovation in business, new strategies, approaches, or models are emerging to support the management of innovation activities.…”

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Evaluation of innovation activities and innovation management model of selected innovative companies

2020

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The company’s success lies in understanding its situation and the differences in its own business and in creating original, and functioning innovation management system. The main task of the owner and management of the company is to create conditions for the creativity of its employees through the created method of providing financial resources and systematic creation of the research team. Innovation and its successful management and implementation helps to overcome the challenges of globalization. The paper aims to evaluate innovation activities, especially concerning the type of implemented innovation activities, initiator, way of development, obstacles, and type of protection of intellectual property. At the same time, the evaluation of innovation activity management is carried out according to the model of Wolcott and Lippitz (2007), which takes into account two parameters, namely the power of authority and organizational responsibility. Data on innovation activities of enterprises are obtained through a proper questionnaire survey carried out by selected innovative companies. The results of the questionnaire survey are evaluated using the IBM SPSS Statistics 21 statistical program. Cluster analysis is also used to identify categories of innovative enterprises.

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Organizational innovation in the multinational enterprise: Internalization theory and business history

Cited by 53 publications

References 148 publications

Applying and advancing internalization theory: The multinational enterprise in the twenty-first century

Applying and advancing internalization theory: The multinational enterprise in the twenty-first century

Setting the stage for corporate headquarters: a technological explanation for the rise of modern industrial corporations

Evaluation of innovation activities and innovation management model of selected innovative companies

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