Role of Community of Practices and their Coordination in the Innovation Development and Deployment within a Multinational Corporation

El papel de las comunidades de práctica, su coordinación en el desarrollo y despliegue de las innovaciones en una multinacional

Mathias Guérineau (), Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini and Florence Charue-Duboc
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Mathias Guérineau: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes, CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini: HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, GREGHEC - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Florence Charue-Duboc: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Recent literature emphasizes the role of communities of practices (CoPs) in terms of greater capabilities to assemble and share tacit and grounded knowledge. However, there is a debate on their impact on innovation processes. To contribute to this, we will try to better understand the role of CoPs in innovation within Multinational Corporations (MNC). Thanks to an in-depth case-study of an innovation that was firstly developed in a subsidiary and then deployed in another, we will highlight the critical role of two kinds of CoPs: one formally managed and supported by top management, and the second spontaneous and autonomous. We point out as well the critical role of their coordination modes in the innovation development and deployment within the MNC.

Keywords: deployment; communities of practices; innovation; Multinational Corporation (MNC); despliegue; comunidades de práctica; innovación; empresas multinacionales; déploiement; communautés de pratiques; firme multinationale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-10-24
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Published in Management international = International management = Gestión internacional, 2018, 21 (3), pp.18-34. ⟨10.7202/1052762ar⟩

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DOI: 10.7202/1052762ar

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