Publication Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
9-2014
Abstract
The internationalization of R&D activity by multinational enterprises (MNEs) is increasing, with a recent big push towards emerging economies. Understanding how MNEs organize collaborative R&D across geographies is therefore an important area of scholarship. However, little attention has been paid towards understanding the factors that influence the division of innovative labor within an MNE across geographies – the internal division of innovative labor. Drawing on the literature that shows that strong protection for intellectual property (IP) is important for the efficient division of innovative labor between firms, we argue and show that differences in effectiveness of IP protection between international locations significantly influences the internal division of innovative labor, especially for R&D aimed at the host market when compared to R&D aimed at the home market.
Keywords
Division of innovative labor, Intellectual Property Regimes (IPR), R&D offshoring, Multinational R&D strategy, global organization of work, knowledge spillover
Discipline
Labor Relations | Organizational Behavior and Theory | Strategic Management Policy
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
First Page
1
Last Page
48
Identifier
10.2139/ssrn.2499158
Citation
NANDKUMAR, Anand and SRIKANTH, Kannan.
Right person at the right place: How IPR at the host location influences the internal division of innovative labor in multinational enterprises. (2014). 1-48.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research_all/13
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Additional URL
http://doi.org./10.2139/ssrn.2499158
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