Speaker: Professor Kazuhiro Asakawa, Keio University, Japan
Title: Control Dynamics For Innovation In The MNC
Date: Monday 18 March 2024
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Building 24, Copland, Seminar Room 1106
Lin Cui is the host of this visit
Abstract
This research addresses the way control dynamics affect the role of international R&D subsidiaries to innovate for the global – rather than the local – market. We shed light on the conditions under which external embeddedness and internal control influence the subsidiaries' current role as global innovator as well as the way their role evolves from local to global innovator. We compare the static and dynamic effect of control on subsidiaries' innovation role. Regarding the static aspect, we confirm that, while external research embeddedness is conducive to a global innovator role, corporate human control deters their role as global innovator. Regarding the dynamic aspect, we identify that corporate information control alleviates the otherwise negative association between the subsidiary’s initial role as the local innovator and the subsequent role as the global innovator. Our findings imply that a dynamic view of control reveals how a certain control mechanism contributes to the subsidiary evolution from a local innovator to a global innovator.
Keyword:
Control dynamics, innovation, subsidiary evolution, local innovator, global innovator, Global R&D, embeddedness
Bio
Kaz Asakawa is Professor of Global Innovation Management at Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Japan. Kaz received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from INSEAD, France, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his BA summa cum laude in Political Economy from Waseda University, Japan. His research interest lies in the areas of global innovation and global R&D management of multinational corporations. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2015. He was elected Vice President Program of AIB in 2021.
Kaz served as an Associate Editor of Global Strategy Journal and a Senior Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He is a consulting editor of Journal of International Management, and he served on the editorial board of many scholarly journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal and Research Policy.
Kaz served as Program Chair of AIB 2023 Warsaw, a Track Chair and a Teaching Roundtable Chair at AIB meetings, and AIB Japan Chapter Chair. He served as President of Japan Academy of Multinational Enterprises (AMNE). He served as a Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan.