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When new R&D labs are being set up, one of the key decisions is the choice of the first R&D director. This first director will have to be able to start a new R&D organization from scratch, establish himself — and itself — in a potentially very alien environment, and ensure the proper integration of the new lab into the global R&D organization.
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Ronstadt (1978), Behrmann and Fischer (1980), von Boehmer (1995), Hakanson and Nobel (1993a), Beckmann (1997), Cantwell and Mudambi (2005).
Granstrand, Hakanson and Sjölander (1993), Hakanson and Nobel (1993b).
See Brockhoff (1998) and Beckmann and Fischer (1994) for R&D sites with a research mission, Kuemmerle (1999), Caves (1996) and Mansfield (1984) for greenfield establishments, and Gassmann and von Zedtwitz (1996c) for internal evolution.
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(2008). Directors of International R&D Labs. In: Managing Global Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68952-2_13
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