Coordinating R&D activities in multinational companies: towards new tools and practices?

Lusine Arzumanyan (1) , Ulrike Mayrhofer (1) , Christopher Melin (1)

1 Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan

Over the past few decades, scholars have shown a growing interest in the topic of innovation processes in multinational enterprises (MNE). Management systems of MNEs are complex, mainly because of the geographical dispersion of their activities. The internationalisation of the value-chain raises critical questions linked to the coordination of innovation processes. The objective of this paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to a better understanding of coordination mechanisms of innovation processes in multinational enterprises, and (2) to propose new tools and practices that can be used by MNEs to efficiently manage their innovation processes.

Mots clés: coordination of activities; Research and development; multinational company; coordination of activities.

Domaines: Gestion et management

Lusine Arzumanyan, Ulrike Mayrhofer, Christopher Melin. Coordinating R&D activities in multinational companies: towards new tools and practices?. IT for product and service innovation in an internationally distributed context, Sep 2011, Nice, France. ⟨halshs-00690220⟩