The Global Shift in R&D Alliances: Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and the Quest for the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) Markets

R 的全球转变

• 批准号: 1127329
• 负责人: Yuko Aoyama
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: Clark University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1127329&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Shift; R& Alliances; Multinational

This project will examine how multinational enterprises (MNEs) are devising new ways to access market intelligence by forging alliances with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and it will conduct case studies of organizational innovation in emerging economies. In particular, the project will focus on the emerging phenomenon of research and development (R&D) alliances between MNEs and NGOs , and it will analyze the significance of global corporate R&D activities in five metropolitan areas in India. In understanding the process and organizational dynamics of innovative activities that target "base-of-the-pyramid" (BOP) markets, the investigators will develop a new conceptual framework that explicitly recognizes innovation as interactions between technological knowledge and market intelligence. Furthermore, the new role of NGOs as partners in innovation demands a broader understanding of their role in shaping the behavior of MNEs. How MNEs and NGOs co-innovate, co-develop, and nurture knowledge assets in spite of competing incentive structures, institutional objectives, and organizational cultures requires new solutions to multi-dimensional coordination problems and different conceptual frameworks for new forms of market governance. The investigators will adopt a multi-stakeholder approach to analyze the newly emerging governance form of innovation. Primary tasks will include a questionnaire survey of foreign MNEs with R&D activities in India, interviews of foreign MNEs in India with a BOP-orientation, interviews of NGOs in India collaborating with MNEs, and interviews with executives based in the United States with knowledge of MNEs' global R&D operations. The project will combine the multi-stakeholder approach with institutional-evolutionary framework as well as comparative analysis to triangulate the qualitative evidence.Through scholarly publications, case books developed for both MNEs and NGOs, and a two day symposium at International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore, India (IITB), the project will provide basic new knowledge regarding the roles and expectations of the various stakeholders involved in base-of-the-pyramid initiatives. Through this international collaborative effort between institutions in the U.S. and India, the project will foster an intellectual dialog among academics in the two countries on the involvement of global forces in shaping the future of the Indian economy as well as the economies of other developing nations.

该项目将研究跨国企业（MNE）如何通过与非政府组织（NGO）建立联盟来设计获取市场情报的新方法，并将对新兴经济体的组织创新进行案例研究。 该项目将特别关注跨国企业和非政府组织之间新兴的研发（R&D）联盟现象，并将分析全球企业研发活动在印度五个大都市区的重要性。 在了解针对“金字塔底层”（BOP）市场的创新活动的流程和组织动态时，研究人员将开发一个新的概念框架，明确将创新视为技术知识和市场情报之间的相互作用。 此外，非政府组织作为创新合作伙伴的新角色要求更广泛地了解它们在塑造跨国企业行为方面的作用。 尽管激励结构、制度目标和组织文化相互竞争，跨国企业和非政府组织如何共同创新、共同开发和培育知识资产，需要针对多维协调问题的新解决方案以及新形式市场治理的不同概念框架。调查人员将采用多利益相关者的方法来分析新出现的创新治理形式。 主要任务包括对在印度开展研发活动的外国跨国企业进行问卷调查、以国际收支为导向对在印度的外国跨国企业进行采访、对在印度与跨国企业合作的非政府组织进行采访以及对驻在美国的了解跨国企业的高管进行采访' 全球研发业务。 该项目将把多利益相关者方法与制度演化框架以及比较分析相结合，以三角测量定性证据。通过学术出版物、为跨国企业和非政府组织编写的案例书，以及在国际信息技术研究所举行的为期两天的研讨会，该项目将在印度班加罗尔 (IITB) 提供有关参与金字塔底层计划的各个利益相关者的角色和期望的基本新知识。 通过美国和印度机构之间的国际合作努力，该项目将促进两国学者之间的知识对话，讨论全球力量参与塑造印度经济以及其他发展中国家经济的未来。