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A Network Perspective on Inter-Organizational Transfer of R&D Capabilities: A Study of International Joint Ventures in Chinese Automobile Industry
Multinational enterprises' transfer of R&D capabilities to their international joint ventures in the less developed countries has been an emerging phenomenon. The purpose of this study is to understand the transfer of R&D capabilities between organizations embedded in drastically different organizational contexts using a network perspective. We identified different networks involved in the R&D capability transfer process from the perspectives of source organization, recipient organization and the interface between them, and analyzed the impact of different attributes of these networks on the effectiveness of R&D capability transfer, based on the notion that R&D capabilities are largely collective knowledge.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39746/3/wp362.pd
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A Network Perspective on Inter-Organizational Transfer of R&D Capabilities: A Study of International Joint Ventures in Chinese Automobile Industry
Multinational enterprises' transfer of R&D capabilities to their international joint ventures in the less developed countries has been an emerging phenomenon. The purpose of this study is to understand the transfer of R&D capabilities between organizations embedded in drastically different organizational contexts using a network perspective. We identified different networks involved in the R&D capability transfer process from the perspectives of source organization, recipient organization and the interface between them, and analyzed the impact of different attributes of these networks on the effectiveness of R&D capability transfer, based on the notion that R&D capabilities are largely collective knowledge.R&D capabilities, networks, international knowledge transfer, joint ventures, collective knowledge
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation: Transforming a Public Safety Net Delivery System to Achieve Higher Performance
Describes the results of the public benefit corporation's improvement initiatives -- a common clinical information system for continuity, coordination on chronic disease management, teamwork and continuous innovation, and access to appropriate care
Boundary objects, power, and learning: The matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations
This article develops an understanding of the agential role of boundary objects in generating and politicizing learning in organizations, as it emerges from the entangled actions of humans and non-humans. We offer two empirical vignettes in which middle managers seek to develop more sustainable ways of working. Informed by Foucault’s writing on power, our work highlights how power relations enable and foreclose the affordances, or possibilities for action, associated with boundary objects. Our data demonstrate how this impacts the learning that emerges as boundary objects are configured and unraveled over time. In so doing, we illustrate how boundary objects are not fixed entities, but are mutable, relational, and politicized in nature. Connecting boundary objects to affordances within a Foucauldian perspective on power offers a more nuanced understanding of how ‘the material’ plays an agential role in consolidating and disrupting understandings in the accomplishment of learning
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Engaging with citizens online: Understanding the role of ePetitioning in local government democracy
This article can be accessed from the link below.According to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act introduced in 2009, UK local authorities are expected to implement ―a facility for making petitions in electronic form to the authority‖. Motivated by this arrangement, this paper reflects on the findings of a case study investigation conducted with the Royal Borough of Kingston (one of the first local authorities to implement such a service since 2004). Lessons learnt from the case suggest that ePetitions reveal increased potential to enhance local government democracy, but are also shaped by challenging open implementation issues which can highly influence the initiative’s impact. Our conclusions are developed within the general debate about online public participation or eParticipation and particularly examine the implications for policy makers
Values Driving Internationalization of Higher Education and Its Influence on International Student Mobility in Two Distinct Contexts Zhejiang Normal University in China and Jimma University in Ethiopia
The main purpose of this comparative study was to understand values driving internationalization of higher education and how these values influence international student mobility in China and Ethiopia. The meaning, rationale and strategies of internationalization was thoroughly explored with the aim of portraying contextual meaning and drawing lesson from experiences. Qualitative case based two level design national and institutional, is employed that allowed thick data collection by exploring the dynamic relationship within and across cases. Semi structured face to face interview with purposely selected participants were conducted. Participants were ministry of education higher education officers from Ethiopia, professors and university leaders, relevant office experts from both cases, all together 61 participants taken part in the study. Policy documents and institutions strategic plan and relevant literature were thoroughly consulted. The data is collected, analyzed, thematically interpreted case by case, not to distort the contextual color/meaning/ and displayed in cross-case comparative matrices to support understanding of the phenomenon in both contexts. The cases display similarity in two conceptual issues-meaning and rationale and display difference in practical matters-strategies. Internationalization in both cases perceived as a means to respond to local and global needs by producing competent global graduates. The major value deriving internationalization at both cases found imbedded in their national development priorities. Hence the meaning of internationalization indicated the felt need of the country, while these needs implied the strategy adopted that directly influenced international student mobility in both cases. Keywords: value, internationalization, international student mobilit
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