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New book: Knowledge Flows, Governance, and the Multinational Enterprise
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The objective is to contribute to the understanding of Knowledge Governance (KG) in the Multinational Corporation (MNC).
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Professor Torben Pedersen: "Det er vores opfattelse at bogen dækker et stort hul i litteraturen om vidensledelse. Der har hidtil været megen fokus på problemer med motivation og kognitive problemer i vidensprocesserne, men meget lidt om de governance mekanismer der kan anvendes til at løse udfordringerne. Bogen kaster lys over dette ved at se på de governance mekanismer, der kan anvendes til at fremme videnskabelse, vidensoverførsel og udnyttelse af viden - både internt og eksternt i virksomhederne."
About the book
Intra-firm and inter-firm processes of knowledge-creation, sharing and exploitation have attracted increasingly managerial and international scholarly interest. However, the relation between particular knowledge processes, determinants of structural choices, governance mechanisms, their relevant costs and benefits, and associated strategic advantages remain less well understood. In part, this is due to complications in the conceptualization of process and outcome variable that effectively represent and measure impediments and enablers of such processes. There is also a lack of empirical understanding of governance modes (e.g. markets, hybrids, joint-ventures, networks), including coordination mechanisms (e.g. incentive, trust) in the governance of knowledge in the MNC. To address these challenges, this book focuses on the following three questions:
- What are key challenges of governing knowledge in the MNC?
- How do contingencies influence relevant trade-offs?
- How do sets of governance mechanisms respond to problems of cognition and incentives?
The papers re-presented in this book stem from two international conferences sponsored by the Danish Science Foundation under the Learning, Incentice, and Economic Organization program. Contributions were screened out through a double-blind review process for publication. Key criteria for inclusion included a sound combination of theory-rooted conceptualization and empirical grounding in response to the questions above.
Marie Wildt (ed.)
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| Associate Professor Volker Mahnke belongs to CBS' Department of Informatics and Professor Torben Pedersen to Department of International Economics and Management. |
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The chapters in the book are written by 25 international researchers; among these from CBS:
- Morten Thanning Vendelø (& Anna Gatti): Plumbing and plugging-in: Networking by venture capitalist in Europe and the USA
- Mark Lorenzen and Volker Mahnke: Governing MNC Entry in regional knowledge clusters
- Torben Pedersen and Jens Gammelgaard (& Ulf Holm): The Dilemmas of MNC subsidiary transfer of knowledge.
Economics Library: Book Collection - Knowledge Flows, Governance, and the Multinational Enterprise, Palgrave Macmillan, London/Basingstoke, 2004, 293 p. 442 kno
See also: Palgrave Macmillan
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Last opdated by Insights@CBS 18.03.2004 | Marts - 2004, nr. 1
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Marts 2004
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