Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Wissenstransfer und -integration im Transnationalen Konzern: Eine soziologische Perspektive

  • Chapter
Transnationale Konzerne

Auszug

Der Begriff des Transnationalen Konzerns (TNK) als neuer Organisationstyp ist maßgeblich aus der Internationalen Business und Management (IB&M) Literatur hervorgegangen. Basierend auf kontingenztheoretischen Überlegungen (v.a. Lawrence/ Lorsch 1967) versteht die IB&M Literatur den TNK als einen Organisationstyp, der in der Lage ist, auf komplexe interne und externe Umweltanforderungen (environment) strategisch (strategy) und sodann organisationsstrukturell, -prozessual und auch -kulturell (structure/ process) zu reagieren (Harzing 1999). Exemplarisch findet sich dieses Konzept des TNK in Bartlett und Ghoshals Arbeit „Managing Across Borders, The Transnational Solution“. Bartlett und Ghoshal zufolge sind weltweit agierende Konzerne dreierlei Umweltanforderungen ausgesetzt, und zwar „forces for global integration“, „forces for local differentation“ und „forces for worldwide innovation“ (Bartlett/ Ghoshal 1998: 6-14). Auf der Ebene der Unternehmensstrategie formen sich diese zu einer Trias durchaus widersprüchlicher Aufgaben aus: Das Erreichen globaler Effizienz, Anpassungen an nationale Kontexte sowie die Fähigkeit, Wissen auf weltweiter Basis zu generieren, zu übertragen und zu integrieren. Eher als annährungswerter Idealtyp durch die Autoren definiert, zeichnet sich der TNK als spezifischer Organisationstyp dadurch aus, den drei skizzierten Anforderungen gleichzeitig gerecht zu werden.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Literaturverzeichnis

  • Almeida, Paul/ Phene, Anupama (2004): Subsidiaries and Knowledge Creation: The Influence of the MNC and Host Country on Innovation. In: Strategic Management Journal 25, S. 847–864

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bartlett, Christopher A./ Ghoshal, Sumantra (1998): Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Becker-Ritterspach, Florian/ Lange, Knut/ Lohr, Karin (2003): Internationaler Modelltransfer und lokaler Widerstand. Die Einführung eines konzernweiten softwarebasierten Organisationsmodells in einem globalen Aufzug-Konzern. In: Dörrenbächer (2003): 113–130

    Google Scholar 

  • Berger, Peter/ Luckmann, Thomas (1967): Social Construction of Reality. New York: Anchor

    Google Scholar 

  • Birkinshaw, Julian (2000): Entrepreneurship in the global firm. London/ Thousand Oaks/ New Delhi: Sage

    Google Scholar 

  • Björkman, Ingmar/ Barner-Rasmussen, Wilhelm/ Li, Li (2004): Managing knowledge transfer in MNCs: the impact of headquarters control mechanisms. In: Journal of International Business Studies 35, S. 443–455

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brannen, Mary Yoko (2004): When Micky loses face: Recontextualization, semantic fit, and the semiotics of foreignness. In: Academy of Management Review 4, S. 593–616

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bryant, Christopher/ Jary, David (Hrsg.) (1991): Giddens’ theory of structuration. A critical appreciation. London/ New York: Routledge

    Google Scholar 

  • Buckley, Peter J./ Carter, Martin J. (2004): A formal analysis of knowledge combination in multinational enterprises. In: Journal of International Business Studies 35, S. 371–384

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buckley, Peter J./ Casson, Mark C. (1976): The Future of the Multinational Enterprise. London: Macmillan

    Google Scholar 

  • Buckley, Peter/ Casson, Mark C. (2001): Strategic complexity in international business. In: Rugman/ Brewer (2001): 88–126

    Google Scholar 

  • Callon, Michel/ Latour, Bruno (1981): Unscrewing the Big Leviathan: How actors macrostructure reality and how sociologists help them to do so. In: Knorr-Cetina/ Cicourel (1981): 277–303

    Google Scholar 

  • Clegg, Stewart R./ Hardy, Cynthia (Hrsg.) (1999): Studying Organizations. London/ Thousand Oaks/ New Delhi: Sage

    Google Scholar 

  • Crozier, Michel/ Friedberg, Erhard (1993): Die Zwänge kollektiven Handelns: Über Macht und Organisation. Frankfurt a. M.: Anton Hain Verlag

    Google Scholar 

  • Czarniawska, Barbara/ Joerges, Bernward (1996): Travels of ideas. In: Czarniawska, Sevôn (1996): 13–48

    Google Scholar 

  • Czarniawska, Barbara/ Sevón, Gujé (1996): Introduction. In: Czarniawska/ Sevón (1996): 1–12

    Google Scholar 

  • Czarniawska, Barbara/ Sevôn, Gujé (Hrsg.) (1996): Translating organizational change. Berlin: DeGruyter

    Google Scholar 

  • Deutschmann, Christoph/ Faust, Michael/ Jauch, Peter/ Notz, Petra (1995): Veränderung der Rolle des Managements im Prozess reflexiver Rationalisierung. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 6, S. 436–450

    Google Scholar 

  • Dhanaraj, Charles/ Lyles, Marjorie/ Steensma, Kevin H./ Tihanyi, Laszlo (2004): Managing tacit and explicit knowledge transfer in IJVs: the role of relational embeddedness and the impact on performance. In: Journal of International Business Studies 35, S. 428–442

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dörrenbächer, Christoph (2002): National Business Systems and the International Transfer of Industrial Models in Multinational Corporations: Some Remarks on Heterogeneity. WZB-Discussion Paper. FS I 02-102, Berlin

    Google Scholar 

  • Dörrenbächer, Christoph (Hrsg.) (2003): Modelltransfer in multinationalen Unternehmen. Strategien und Probleme grenzüberschreitender Konzernintegration. Berlin: Sigma

    Google Scholar 

  • Doz, Yves/ Prahalad, CK (1991): Managing DMNCs: A search for a new paradigm. In: Strategic Management Journal 12, S. 145–164

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Forsgren, Mats/ Pedersen, Torben/ Foss, Nicolai (1999): Accounting for the strength of MNC subsidiaries: The case of foreign-owned firms in Denmark. In: International Business Review 2, S. 181–196

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Forssell, Anders/ Jansson, David (1996): The Logic of Organizational Transformation: On the Conversion of Non-Business Organizations. In: Czarniawska/ Sevón (1996): 93–116

    Google Scholar 

  • Foss, Nicolai J./ Pedersen, Torben (2002): Transferring knowledge in MNCs: The role of sources of subsidiary knowledge and organisational context. In: Journal of International Management 8, S. 49–67

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foss, Nicolai J./ Pedersen, Torben (2004): Organizing knowledge processes in the multinational corporation: an introduction. In: Journal of International Business Studies 35, S. 340–349

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frost, Tony (2001): The geographic sources of foreign subsidiaries’ innovations. In: Strategic Management Journal 22, S. 101–123

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Geppert, Mike/ Williams, Karen (forthcoming in 2005): Global, national and local practices in multinational corporations-Towards a socio-political framework. In: International Journal of Human Ressource Management

    Google Scholar 

  • Ghoshal, Sumantra/ Bartlett, Christopher A. (1988): Creation, adoption, and diffusion of innovation by subsidiaries of multinational corporations. In: Journal of International Business Studies Fall, S. 365–388

    Google Scholar 

  • Ghoshal, Sumantra/ Westney, Eleanor D. (Hrsg.) (1993): Organization theory and the multinational corporation. New York: St. Martins Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Giddens, Anthony (1981): Agency, institution, and time-space analysis. In: Knorr-Cetina/ Cicourel (1981): 161–174

    Google Scholar 

  • Giddens, Anthony (1984): The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Cambridge: Polity Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Giddens, Anthony (1991): Structuration Theory: Past, present and future. In: Bryant, Jary (1991): 201–221

    Google Scholar 

  • Giddens, Anthony (1992): Die Konstitution der Gesellschaft. Grundzüge einer Theorie der Strukturierung. Frankfurt/ New York: Campus Verlag

    Google Scholar 

  • Gupta, Anil K./ Govindarajan, Vijay (1991): Knowledge flows and the structure of control within multinational corporations. In: Academy of Management Review 16, S. 768–792

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gupta, Anil K./ Govindarajan, Vijay (2000): Knowledge flows within multinational corporations. In: Strategic Management Journal 21, S. 473–496

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hakanson, Lars/ Nobel, Robert (2000): Technology Characteristics and Reverse Technology Transfer. In: Management International Review 40, S. 29–47

    Google Scholar 

  • Hansen, Morten T. (1999): The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits. In: Administrative Science Quarterly, S. 82–111

    Google Scholar 

  • Hansen, Morten T. (2002): Knowledge Networks: Explaining Effective Knowledge Sharing in Multiunit Companies. Organization Science 3, S. 232–248

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hansen, Morten T./ Lovas, Björn, (2004): How do multinational companies leverage technological competencies? Moving from singe to interdependent explanations. In: Strategic Management Journal 25, S. 801–822

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harzing, Anne-Wil K. (1999): Managing the Multinationals. An International Study of Control Mechanisms. Creltenham/ Northampton: Edward Elgar

    Google Scholar 

  • Hedlund, Gunnar (1994): A model of knowledge management and the N-form corporation. In: Strategic Management Journal 15, Summer Special Issue, S. 73–90

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Knorr-Cetina, Karin/ Cicourel, Aaron V. (Hrsg.) (1981): Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Toward an Integration of Micro-and Macro-Sociologies. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul

    Google Scholar 

  • Kogut, Bruce/ Zander, Udo (1993): Knowledge of the firm and the evolutionary theory of the multinational corporation. In: Journal of International Business Studies, Forth Quarter, S. 625–645

    Google Scholar 

  • Kostova, Tatiana (1999): Transnational transfer of strategic organizational practices: A contextual perspective. In: Academy of Management Review, 24, S. 308–324

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kostova, Tatiana/ Roth, Kendall (2002) Adoption of an organizational practice by subsidiaries of multinational corporations: Institutional and relational effects. In: Academy of Management Journal 45, S. 215–233

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kotabe, Masaaki/ Martin, Xavier/ Domoto, Hiroshi (2003): Gaining from vertical relationships: Knowledge transfer, relationship duration, and supplier performance improvement in the U.S. and Japanese automobile industries. In: Strategic Management Journal 24, S. 293–316

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lawrence, Paul/ Lorsch, Jay W. (1967): Differentiation and Integration in Complex Organizations. In: Adminis-trative Science Quarterly 12, 1–47

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maanenvan, John/ Laurent, Andre (1993): The Flow of Culture: Some Notes on Globalization and the Multinational Corporation. In: Ghoshal, Westney (1993): 275–312

    Google Scholar 

  • Marschan-Piekkari, R./ Welch, C. (Hrsg.) (2004): Handbook of qualitative research methods for international business. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

    Google Scholar 

  • Meyer, John W. (1996): Otherhood: The Promulgation and Transmission of Ideas in the Modern Organisational Environment. In: Czarniawska/ Sevón (1996): 241–252

    Google Scholar 

  • Minbaeva, Dana/ Pedersen, Torben/ Björkman, Ingmar/ Fey, Carl F./ Park, Hyeon J. (2002). MNC Knowledge Transfer, Subsidiary Absorptive Capacity and HRM. In: Academy of Management Proceedings. M:F1

    Google Scholar 

  • Mudambi, Ram (2002): Knowledge management in multinational firms. Journal of International Management 8, S. 1–9

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Neuberger, Oswald (1995): Mikropolitik: Der alltägliche Aufbau und Einsatz von Macht in Organisationen. Suttgart: Enke

    Google Scholar 

  • Nohria, Nitin/ Ghoshal, Sumantra (1997): The Differentiated Network. Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

    Google Scholar 

  • Nonaka, Ikujiro/ Takeuchi, Hirotaka. (1995): The Knowledge Creating Company. How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Ortmann, Günther/ Sydow, Jörg/ Türk, Klaus (Hrsg.) (1997): Theorien der Organisation. Die Rückkehr der Gesellschaft. Osladen: Westdeutscher Verlag

    Google Scholar 

  • Ortmann, Günther/ Sydow, Jörg/ Windeler, Arbold (1997): Organisation als reflexive Strukturation. In: Ortmann et al. (1997): 315–354

    Google Scholar 

  • Pearce, Rober/ Papanastassiou, Marina (1999): Overseas R&D and the strategic evolution of MNEs: evidence from laboraties in the UK. In: Research Policy 28, 23–41

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Polanyi, Michael (1966): The Tacit Dimension. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul

    Google Scholar 

  • Powell, Walter W./ DiMaggio, Paul J. (1991): The new institutionalism on organizational analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Rottenburg, Richard (1996): When organization travels. On intercultural translation. In: Czarniawska/ Sevórn (1996): 191–240

    Google Scholar 

  • Rugman, Alan M./ Brewer, Thomas L. (Hrsg.) (2001): The Oxford Handbook of International Business. Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Sahlin-Andersson, Kerstin (1996): Imitating by Editing Success. In: Czarniawska/ Sevón (1996): 69–92

    Google Scholar 

  • Saka, Ayse (2003): Cross-National Appropriation of Work Systems, Japanese Firms in the UK. Cieltenham/ Northampton: Edward Elgar

    Google Scholar 

  • Schulz, Martin (2003): Pathways of Relevance: Exploring Inflows of Knowledge into Subunits of Multinational Corporations. In: Organization Science 4, S. 440–459

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sevón, Guje (1996): Organizational Imitation in Identity Transformation. In: Czarniawska/ Sevón (1996): 49–68

    Google Scholar 

  • Sharpe, Diana R. (1997): Compromise Solutions: A Japanese Multinational Comes to the UK. In: Whitley, Kristensen (1997): 171–189

    Google Scholar 

  • Simonin, Bernard L. (2004): An empirical investigation of the process of knowledge transfer in international strategic alliances. In: Journal of International Business Studies 35, S. 407–427

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Singh, Jasjit (2004): Multinational firms and knowledge diffusion: Evidence using patent citation data. Academy of Management Best Conference Paper

    Google Scholar 

  • Szulanski, Gabriel (1996): Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm. In: Strategic Management Journal 17, S. 27–43

    Google Scholar 

  • Teigland, Robin/ Fey, Carl F./ Birkinshaw, J. (2001): Knowledge Dissemination in Global R&D Operations: An Empirical Study of Multinationals in the High Technology Electronics Industry. In: Management International Review Special Issue 1, S. 49–77

    Google Scholar 

  • Tolbert, Pamela/ Zucker, Lynne G. (1999): The Institutionalization of Institutional Theory. In: Clegg, Hardy (1999): 169–184

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsai, Wenpin (2001): Knowledge Transfer in Intraorganizational Networks: Effects of Network Position and Absorptive Capacity on Business Unit Innovation and Performance. In: Academy of Management Journal 5, S. 996–1004

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Welch, Denice E./ Welch, Lawrence S. (2004): In Marschan-Piekkari/ Welch (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  • Whitley, Richard/ Kristensen, Peer H. (Hrsg.) (1997): Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations. New York: Oxford University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Whittington, Richard (1992): Putting Giddens into Action: Social Systems and Managerial Agency. In: Journal of Management Studies 6, S. 693–712

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yamin, Mo/ Otto, Juliet (2004): Patterns of knowledge flows and MNE innovative performance. In: Journal of International Management 10, S. 239–258

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zucker, Lynne G. (1991): Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence. In: Powell, DiMaggio (1991):83–107

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Florian Becker-Ritterspach
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Ursula Mense-Petermann Gabriele Wagner

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2006 VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Becker-Ritterspach, F. (2006). Wissenstransfer und -integration im Transnationalen Konzern: Eine soziologische Perspektive. In: Mense-Petermann, U., Wagner, G. (eds) Transnationale Konzerne. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90284-5_6

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90284-5_6

  • Publisher Name: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-531-14707-9

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-531-90284-5

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Science (German Language)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation