Innovation in Multinational Companies Organisational, International and Regional Dilemmas - Mattes, Jannika (Lang, Peter, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011)
4.2.1 Research design and procedure in selecting and accessing study objects 112
Overview; Table of contents; List of tables and figures XVII; List of abbreviatons XIX; 1 Innovation and globalisation: multinational companies as hosts of complicated learning processes 1; 2 Innovation in multinational companies and in regions: two independent settings? 9; 2.1 Learning in multinational companies and the internationalisation of innovation 12; 2.1.1 Strategic approaches: the emergence of multinational companies 14; 2.1.1.1 General strategic contributions 15; 2.1.1.2 Knowledge-specific strategic contributions 16
2.1.2 Structural approaches: the organisational structure of multinational companies 172.1.2.1 General structural contributions 18; 2.1.2.2 Knowledge-specific structural contributions 24; 2.1.3 Cognitive approaches: learning in multinational companies 26; 2.1.3.1 Theories of organisational learning 27; 2.1.3.2 Organisational learning in multinational companies 30; 2.1.4 Conclusion: learning in multinational companies 34; 2.2 Learning in regions and the regionalisation of innovation 36; 2.2.1 Regions as competitive battlefields: clusters, agglomeration and economic geography 39
2.2.2 Regions as social communities: industrial districts 422.2.3 Regions as locations of innovation: knowledge and technology 44; 2.2.3.1 Social approaches in the knowledge-based schools: innovative milieus and learning regions 44; 2.2.3.2 Socio-economic approaches: regional worlds of production 47; 2.2.3.3 Socio-economic institutionalism: regional innovation systems 49; 2.2.3.4 Beyond a purely spatial interpretation of the region 51; 2.2.3.5 Cognitive approaches to regions: a résumé 55; 2.2.4 Conclusion: learning in regions 56
2.3 The lack of connectedness between organisational and regional learning: the challenge of this work 593 Innovation dilemmas in projects and arenas 67; 3.1 Innovation as a threefold dilemma 70; 3.1.1 A dilemmatic perspective on innovation: preliminary considerations 71; 3.1.2 The dilemma between formalisation and flexibilisation 74; 3.1.3 The dilemma between concentration and dispersal 77; 3.1.4 The dilemma between regional embeddedness and disembeddedness 80; 3.1.5 Conclusion: innovation and learning in a dilemmatic view 86; 3.2 The organisation of innovation: projects and arenas 88