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The Organizational Decomposition of Innovation and Territorial Knowledge Dynamics: Insights from the German Software Industry

In: Innovation and Institutional Embeddedness of Multinational Companies

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  • Simone Strambach
  • Benjamin Klement

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Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded knowledge, explores the utilization of external institutionally embedded knowledge in corporate innovation processes, and addresses the challenges of embeddedness.

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  • Simone Strambach & Benjamin Klement, 2012. "The Organizational Decomposition of Innovation and Territorial Knowledge Dynamics: Insights from the German Software Industry," Chapters, in: Martin Heidenreich (ed.), Innovation and Institutional Embeddedness of Multinational Companies, chapter 8, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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