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The Microfoundations of Global Innovation: Disrupting the Balance Between Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

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We review the individual attributes forming the microfoundations of innovation in a gIobal economy. It is argued herein that the literature on international assignments and international talent management is possibly skewed in favor of localization, thereby ignoring that a global, strategic imperative often houses the key drivers of innovation in global firms. We introduce several arguments in favor of standing by a global imperative together with arguments against localization efforts that endanger the firm’s innovative spirit. We propose a bidimensional model of the microfoundations of global innovation, where localization and globalization do not represent the opposite poles of a bipolar continuum to be balanced, but two distinct sets of paradoxical forces whose asymmetries should be taken advantage of in innovative ways.

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  1. Department of Management and International Business, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

    Juan I. Sanchez

  2. Skiversity, Inc., Miami, FL, USA

    Yasmina Lazrak

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  1. Florida International University, College of Business, Miami, Florida, USA

    Sumit Kundu

  2. Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Surender Munjal

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Sanchez, J.I., Lazrak, Y. (2017). The Microfoundations of Global Innovation: Disrupting the Balance Between Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces. In: Kundu, S., Munjal, S. (eds) Human Capital and Innovation. Palgrave Studies in Global Human Capital Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56561-7_4

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