Management International Review

1. Front Matter

   Pages N1-2

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2. Guest Editor’s Introduction

   • Jan Hendrik Fisch

   Pages 3-6

3. Regional Strategies of Multinational Pharmaceutical Firms

   • Alan M. Rugman, Cecilia Brain

   Pages 7-26

4. Distributed Knowledge and Creativity in the International Software Industry

   • Anca M. Metiu, Bruce Kogut

   Pages 27-56

5. The Internationalization of R&D — the Swiss Case

   • John Cantwell, Katherina Glac, Dz. Rebecca Harding

   Pages 57-82

6. Lead Markets: A New Framework for the International Diffusion of Innovation

   • Marian Beise, Hans Georg Gemünden

   Pages 83-102

7. Knowledge Management, Cognitive Coherence, and Equivocality in Distributed Innovation Processes in MNCs

   • Alexander Gerybadze

   Pages 103-128

8. Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations: Evidence from German Firms

   • Dirk Holtbrügge, Nicola Berg

   Pages 129-146

9. Allocating Innovative Activities in International R&D with Fuzzy Logic

   • Jan Hendrik Fisch

   Pages 147-166

10. Back Matter

    Pages 167-170

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Alan M. Rugman's and Cecilia Brain's paper examines the R&D and strate­ gies of the world' s largest finns in the phannaceuticals sector and finds a high degree of intra-regional sales. R&D and sales are more concentrated within North America and Europe than in Asia. In addition, the relative size of the US market, compared to other parts of the triad, creates imbalances with respect to R&D, sales and international strategy. The paper written by Bruce Kogut and Anca Metiu addresses the question of what limits the international distribution of work between rich and poor coun­ tries in the software industry. Their research reveals a convergence among co­ located and distributed projects. The results indicate that the managerial experi­ ence to support global outsourcing of intellectual labor is already advanced, while creativity remains more likely to be located in rich countries. lohn Cantwell, Katherina Glac, and Rebecca Harding analyze the extent and the patterns of specialization of the internationalization of R&D since 1969 by the largest Swiss finns abroad, and by the largest non-Swiss finns in Switzer­ land. They find out that Swiss-owned finns abroad access technologies in the primary fields of their own industry, while foreign-owned finns conducting re­ search in Switzerland demonstrate more technological diversification away from their own primary fields and into sources of local Swiss traditional technological strengths.

• Forschung & Entwicklung
• Internationalization
• MIR
• Multinational Corporations
• innovation
• knowledge management
• knowledge transfer
• management
• strategy

• Universität Hohenheim (510 E), Stuttgart, Germany

  Klaus Macharzina

• Universität Bremen, Germany

  Michael-Jörg Oesterle

• Universität Kiel, Germany

  Joachim Wolf

Dr. Jan Hendrik Fisch is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Management, Organization and Human Resource Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.

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