A influência do determinismo ambiental sobre a estratégia e inovação em subsidiárias estrangeiras

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Sidney
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da ESPM
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.espm.br/handle/tede/50
• topic: subsidiárias; redes inter-organizacionais; inovação; subsidiaries; networks; innovation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO DE SETORES ESPECIFICOS

The main aim of this research, is to check the level of the influence of the national and international environmental factors about the integration of the subsidiaries of multinational corporations in collaborative networks, and their consequences on the development of innovations in global subsidiaries. The importance of environmental factors determines the success of a country, as well as the networks cooperation that companies are included, even if the academic literature it is extensive and distinguished to dealing with the matter. Although the literature is prolific and affects the organizations, there is still a lack of empirical studies that correlate these issues and show clearly the degree to which environmental factors helps subsidiaries insert themselves into networks of cooperation and the consequences on the development of skills and innovation. In spite of the multinational has scientists in their R&D centers working on innovation projects, the company is not as great as have all the knowledge in place, they are scattered throughout the world as the strategy according metanational. In this context, the inclusion of cooperative relationships could play a key role in making possible access to certain resources and knowledge far. From these inter-organizational relationship and the access to resources and expertise that the network can provide, the multinational by means of their subsidiaries can create and develop innovations that will be shared with all their intra-organizational network. The main hypothesis is that the factors that compose the competitive environment, positively influence the subsidiaries of multinational corporations to insert themselves in enterprise networks and from these relationships, develop global innovations. A survey with a thousand largest corporations was used to answer the hypotheses. From the theoretical complexity and the multiple relationships between variables, was determined using the statistical technique of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results revealed that only the national competitive environment exerts a positive influence on the inclusion of subsidiaries in both technical and business networks, but on the other hand, only the international competitive environment showed a significant influence on the creation of innovations in the subsidiaries. The results also showed that only the technical network influences the subsidiaries in the development and creation of innovations.