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Managing Synergistic Innovations Through Corporate Global R&D
Ajax Persaud, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar
ISBN: 1-56720-463-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-463-6
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2002
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £71.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Multinational corporations claim that their synergistic innovative capabilities—their ability to create and deploy innovations rapidly and successfully—have been enhanced by global R&D. But have they? In attempting to answer this question, the authors seemlessly integrate rigorous quantitative analysis—e.g., multivariate regression, factor analysis, and partial least squares analysis—with qualitative analysis of data from interviews and surveys.

The data are provided by senior R&D executives in approximately 80 global R&D facilities from leading North American, European, and Japanese multinational corporations. In analyzing this wealth of information, the authors cover the role of slack resources, knowledge management processes, and top management team diversity, all in the context of global R&D and its impact on the synergistic innovative capabilities of multinationals.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    The Case for Global R&D
    Patterns of Global R&D
    Configuring the Global R&D Network
    Managing the Global R&D Innovation Process
    Model of Global R&D Coordination and Synergistic Innovations
    Assessing Synergistic Innovations: Multivariate Analysis
    Assessing Synergistic Innovations; Partial least Squares Analysis
    Coordinating Global R&D: A Core Competence
    Networks for Synergistic Innovations
    Conclusion
    Appendices
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: AJAX PERSAUD is Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Ottawa.

VINOD KUMAR is Professor of Management of Technology at the Eric Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa.

UMA KUMAR is Professor of Management of Technology at the Eric Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa.
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