Internationalization of Research and Development
By: by Klaus Brockhoff
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9783642638022; 9783642589591
Subjects: Industrial engineering; Industrial management; Economics
Description: Research and development is no longer a headquarters function. More and more companies internationalize their R&D activities. The pros and cons of this approach are discussed in this book. The organizational alternatives for international R&D as well as the consequences that they have for decision making and performing R&D are also of great interest. Furthermore, measuring success of international R&D is a very difficult problem that is not yet fully understood. However, suggestions are made to improve present day practise. They are based on a large body of empirical research and management literature.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview; title: Multiple locations for R&D; title: Particular aspects of internationalization; title: Starting foreign R&D operations; title: Task assignments to foreign R&D laboratories; title: Coordinating internationally dispersed R&D laboratories; title: Measures of success; title: Summary and conclusions.