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Innovation and control in the multinational firm: A comparison of political and contingency approaches

Author(s) -

Ambos Björn,

Schlegelmilch Bodo B.

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

strategic management journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 11.035

H-Index - 286

eISSN - 1097-0266

pISSN - 0143-2095

DOI - 10.1002/smj.584

Subject(s) - multinational corporation , contingency , mandate , contingency theory , german , control (management) , politics , test (biology) , power (physics) , economics , industrial organization , business , management , political science , finance , law , epistemology , paleontology , philosophy , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , biology , history

This study focuses on control mechanisms used by multinational corporations (MNCs) to manage their extra‐national R&D units. Drawing on both the literature on organizational power and contingency theory, this study develops and empirically tests a set of hypotheses aimed at explaining how headquarters control their overseas R&D units. Data collected from 134 R&D units of German MNCs serve to test the hypotheses. Results highlight the importance of the units' R&D mandate and its interdependence in explaining control mechanisms. Moreover, they indicate a relatively weak predictive power of political approaches compared to contingency approaches. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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