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| Author: | Meyer, A. de Mizushima, A. |
| Title: | Global R&D management. |
| Journal: | R. and D. Management
1989 : APR, VOL. 19:2, p. 135-146 |
| Index terms: | R&D MANAGEMENT MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES DECENTRALISATION ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Study of how a sample of European and Japanese multinationals dealt with problems of co-ordinating dispersed R&D efforts, and whether laboratories in newly acquired foreign subsidiaries should be integrated with home-based laboratories or closed down, related to managing world-wide R&D. The research project. State of the art: why companies locate R&D abroad, and types of global R&D laboratories. The management challenge. Central control versus autonomy, and organisational structure. Communication flows. International human resource management. A new framework. Globalization of R&D. Creation of R&D laboratories abroad. Management of an international network of R&D laboratories. |
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