Coordination Structures and Innovative Performance in Global R&D Labs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Recently, multinational corporations have been globalizing their research and development (R&D) activities as a way to harness and leverage the scientific and technological capabilities residing in their subsidiary labs around the world and to tap into the knowledge base of overseas locations. Prior research suggests that proper coordination and control mechanisms are critical for the realization of this goal. An empirical study was undertaken to ascertain the extent to which four coordination and control mechanisms—autonomy, socialization, formalization, and communication—enhance the innovative capabilities of multinationals. R&D executives from 79 research facilities of 27 North American, European, and Japanese multinational corporations participated in this study. The results from multivariate regression and factor analysis indicate that innovative capability is influenced by the level of autonomy of the labs, the extent of socialization, and the effectiveness of in‐person communication between the HQ and subsidiary labs. Résumé Récemment, les corporations multinationales ont mondialisé leurs activités de recherche et développement afin d'exploiter et de retenir les capacités scientifiques et technologiques au coeur de leurs laboratoires auxiliaires autour du monde. Des recherches antérieures suggèrent qu'une bonne coordination et qu'un bon contrôle est critique pour la réalisation de ce but. Une recherche empirique a été effectué pour évaluer jusqu'à quel point les quatre mécanismes de coordination et de contrôle—autonomie, socialisation, formalisation, et communication—pourraient améliorer les capacités innovatrices des compagnies multinationales. Les directeurs de recherche et développement parvenant de 79 laboratoires de recherche de 27 corporations nord‐américaines, européennes, et japonaises ont participé à cette étude. Les résultats de régressions multivariées et d'analyse de facteurs indiquent que les capacités innovatrices sont influencées par le niveau d'autonomie dans les laboratoires, les limites de la socialisation, et par l'efficacité de l'intercommunication entre le siège social de l'entreprise et les laboratoires auxiliaires.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".