How Firms Build Isolating Mechanisms for Knowledge: A Study in Offshore Research and Development Captives
| Autor: | Deepa Mani, Prashant Kale, Anand Nandkumar, Kannan Srikanth |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Sustainable development
Organizational architecture Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Management Science and Operations Research Rapid rise Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Isolating mechanisms 050211 marketing Submarine pipeline Business Business and International Management Leakage (economics) 050203 business & management Industrial organization |
| Zdroj: | Strategy Science. 5:98-116 |
| ISSN: | 2333-2077 2333-2050 |
| DOI: | 10.1287/stsc.2020.0101 |
| Popis: | Understanding how firms protect their knowledge from leakage is becoming increasingly important, especially when knowledge is not well protected by legal mechanisms such as patents. The rapid rise in research and development (R&D) activities taking place in offshore locations that only offer weak legal protection for intellectual property provides the ideal context to study this question. Using interview and survey data from captive R&D centers of multinational firms in India, we (1) identify five organizational practices that firms use to protect their knowledge from leaking to competitors in offshore locations, (2) consider whether these practices limit knowledge leakage or limit damage from leaked knowledge, and (3) explore whether they are complements or substitutes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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