How to Manage Business in Collaborative Environment – A Case Study of Multinational Companies

2018 ◽  
pp. 299-311
Author(s):  
Martin Holubčík ◽  
Josef Vodák ◽  
Jakub Soviar
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Collaborative Environment

scholarly journals Innovation on Wheels in Emerging Economies: Lessons from Auto MNC’s Experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifat Sharmelly
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Acceptability Criteria

Emerging economies (EEs) are increasingly being considered as new sources of growth and innovation opportunities for global auto multinational companies. Many multinational companies from developed countries are eager to prosper in these economies. However, the crucial challenge that companies face today is to identify what precisely are the approaches required to serve mass market customers in EEs. In this research, the case study of a foreign auto multinational operating in India has been utilized. Focusing on the product innovation for the Indian masses with the creation of the most affordable car ‘Figo’ from the reputed auto multinational Ford, this analysis reveal the importance of engaging same set of suppliers in trust based, recurrent collaborative linkages to enhance the innovative performance. In addition, ensuring an effective value-for-money proposition is needed to achieve innovations with required affordability and acceptability criteria. Furthermore, experimenting with modules and resultant learning about markets are needed to enhance the innovative performance. With the suggested testable propositions, this study has significant theoretical contributions as well as implications for managers of aspiring companies intending to serve EEs.

Differences and Dialogic Learning in a Collaborative Virtual Design Studio

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Hou ◽  
Min-Jay Kang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
Dialogic Learning ◽  
Design Collaboration ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Traditional Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Operational Issues

With the ability of linking distant partners and diverse bodies of students and faculty, virtual design studios provide unique opportunities for examining cultural, contextual, and methodological differences in design and design collaboration. However, most evaluations of virtual design studio in the recent literature have focused primarily on technical and operational issues. In contrast, the social and cultural dimensions of virtual design studio and their pedagogical implications have not been adequately examined. To address this gap, this article examines the experience and outcomes of a recent virtual design studio involving international collaboration between faculty and student partners. Specifically, it looks at how presence of differences and process of dialogic learning create pedagogical opportunities in a collaborative 'virtual' environment. Based on the case study, this article argues that through dialogues, collaboration, and negotiation of cultural, contextual and methodological differences, collaborative virtual design studio offers an alternative to traditional design studio based on the primacy of individual practice and the master-apprentice model of learning. By creatively utilizing the collaborative environment involving diverse partners, virtual design studio can foster a critical understanding of cross-cultural design process and the significance of dialogues and negotiation in design.

Linguistic and Cultural Skills for Communication in Global Workplaces of the 21st Century

2014 ◽  
pp. 832-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmela Briguglio
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Cultural Skills ◽  
Undergraduate Class

This chapter examines issues in intercultural communication in regard to the use of English as a global language in the workplace of the 21st century. The findings that emerged from data gathered in two multinational companies inform discussion about the sort of communication skills that workers will require in the global workplace. A case study with an Australian undergraduate class served to examine whether the skills identified in multinational workplaces are, in fact, being developed in graduates. Based on all the above, the author has developed a four dimensional model comprising the intercultural communication skills that future graduates, including engineers and IT professionals, will require for global workplaces. Some strategies that will facilitate the development of such skills are also discussed.

How Multinational Companies Create and Capture Value From Innovation Through Business Model Dynamics

2019 ◽  
pp. 454-471
Author(s):  
Mariane Figueira ◽  
Annika Rickne ◽  
Joel Yutaka Sugano
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Research Question ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Model Dynamics ◽  
Model Components

Willing to answer to the research question of how multinational companies succeed in creating and capturing value from a new technology, this chapter aimed at filling the gaps in the existing literature with regards to defining business model dynamics and demonstrating business model dynamics in practice. Through a case study of Monsanto, and of the way the company's subsidiary managed to successfully adapt and innovate in Brazil, this chapter showed that external pressures such as new technology, the need to respond to the customers' demand for information concerning the company's new value proposition, existing regulation (among other external pressures) forced the multinational company to implement changes and create new elements in some of the business model components. Results also showed that to capture part of the value created with a new technology it might be necessary to complete business model design and evaluation with the analysis of the external environment.

Learning and Innovation in Multinational Companies from Emerging Economies

2016 ◽  
pp. 424-454
Author(s):  
Arturo Torres Vargas ◽  
Javier Jasso Villazul
Keyword(s):  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Learning Trajectories ◽  
Technological Capabilities ◽  
The World

This chapter aims to illustrate the importance that learning trajectories and the building of technological capabilities have had in the internationalization and competitiveness process of the nowadays Multinational Companies from an Emerging Economy (MCEE), based on the case of CEMEX, a Mexican multinational and one of the largest cement companies of the world. The case study shows that the emergence of this company into the global markets is the result of a mix of assets and capabilities (Penrose, 1995; Bell & Pavitt, 1995; Bell, 2007) developed over a period of nearly eight decades, at whose base are productive, technological and organizational capabilities. Findings substantiate that multinationalization through mergers and acquisitions has strengthened the technological capabilities of CEMEX, as a result of the learning and knowledge sharing processes driven by the actual integration of CEMEX with the acquired companies. By establishing learning routines, CEMEX feeds an innovation process within the group.

A Framework for Semantic Grid in E-Science

2009 ◽  
pp. 235-240
Author(s):  
Diego Liberati
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Semantic Grid ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Cooperative Enterprise ◽  
Open Source Systems ◽  
The Web ◽  
Generally True

A framework is proposed that creates, uses, and communicates information, whose organizational dynamics allows performing a distributed cooperative enterprise in public environments, even over open source systems. The approach assumes the web services as the enacting paradigm possibly over a grid, to formalize interactions as cooperative services on various computational nodes of a network. The illustrated case study shows that some portions, both of processes and of data or knowledge, can be shared in a collaborative environment, which is also more generally true for any kind of either complex or resource demanding (or both) interaction that will benefit any of the approaches.

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