A conceptual framework for intra-company technology transfer: cases of leveraging production process innovations across MNEs |
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Authors: | Khaleel Malik Marc-Michael Bergfeld |
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Institution: | 1. Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UKkhaleel.malik@mbs.ac.uk;3. Munich Business School, Elsenheimerstr 61, 80687 Munich, Germany |
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Abstract: | Multinational enterprises (MNEs) strive to commercialise their knowledge base globally by mobilising their technological competencies, transferring them across organisational boundaries, and selling the resulting systems, products, processes, and services worldwide. However, co-operation within MNEs still leaves potential for improvement, because intra-company transfers of technology as modes of corporate expansion and conquest of new international markets seldom work efficiently. Academic literature has not adequately addressed this important issue. Based on six case studies from MNEs, this paper highlights the challenges of intra-company technology transfer by examining exemplary cases of production process-related technology transfers. It establishes a conceptual framework model for intra-company technology transfers and identifies important success factors. |
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Keywords: | technology transfer MNE production process intra-company communication |
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