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（NGOs）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。 特别是，将关注跨国企业和NGO之间的研究开发（R D）联盟这一新兴现象，并分析印度5个大都市地区的全球企业R D活动的意义。 在理解针对“金字塔底层”（BOP）市场的创新活动的过程和组织动态时，研究人员将开发一个新的概念框架，明确承认创新是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伙伴的新角色要求更广泛地理解它们在塑造跨国公司行为方面的作用。 跨国公司和非政府组织如何在激励结构、制度目标和组织文化相互竞争的情况下共同创新、共同发展和培育知识资产，需要对多维协调问题提出新的解决方案，并为新形式的市场治理提供不同的概念框架。研究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。 主要任务将包括对在印度从事研发活动的外国跨国公司进行问卷调查，对在印度从事国际收支导向的外国跨国公司进行访谈，对与跨国公司合作的印度非政府组织进行访谈，以及对了解跨国公司全球研发业务的美国高管进行访谈。 该项目将联合收割机与制度演进框架以及比较分析相结合，通过学术出版物、为跨国公司和非政府组织编写的案例手册以及在印度班加罗尔国际信息技术研究所（IITB）举行的为期两天的研讨会，该项目将提供关于参与金字塔底层倡议的各利益攸关方的作用和期望的基本新知识。 通过美国和印度机构之间的这种国际合作努力，该项目将促进两国学者就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进行智力对话。