Perspectives on Subsidiaries

Alessandra Perri
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Alessandra Perri: Universita’ Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Chapter 3 in Innovation and the Multinational Firm: Perspectives on Foreign Subsidiaries and Host Locations, 2015, pp 62-85 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter shifts the focus of the analysis of MNC innovation from headquarters to subsidiaries. It reviews IB literature on subsidiary evolution, and discusses the internal and external conditions leading subsidiaries to gain and further develop active roles in the management of local innovative activities. Leveraging innovation management literature, it describes subsidiaries as strategizing actors that govern their local knowledge assets in the pursuit of their subsidiary-specific objectives and incentives. Specifically, it suggests that subsidiaries’ local innovation management is driven by a combination of knowledge creation and knowledge protection imperatives. In the quest for such objectives, subsidiaries are able to actively and dynamically adapt their knowledge strategies to changing internal and external conditions.

Keywords: active subsidiaries; internal and external networks; knowledge creation; knowledge protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137555441_4

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