Cross-border company technology alliance management

Author: Wang Hui
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: It is generally believed that multinational corporations have significant advantages in global competition, such as substantial R&D investment and advanced technology, multiple financing channels with low costs, and significant economies of scale that give them a dominant position in the market. However, with the rapid development of technology and the increasing intensity of global competition, these traditional advantages are becoming explicit conditions for participating in global competition. They are merely the tip of the iceberg. Future global competitive advantages will more likely come from the implicit resources and capabilities that multinational corporations possess. Analyzing the competitive advantages of multinational corporations from the perspectives of networks, social capital, and global learning can, to some extent, help us identify the key factors in the formation of their future global competitive advantages. This book provides an overview of the development of technological alliances among multinational corporations, primarily discussing their innovative effects, the integrated management dimensions of technological alliances: networks, knowledge, and social capital. It elaborates in detail on the network dimension, knowledge dimension, and social capital dimension of the management of technological alliances among multinational corporations, with a specific analysis of Siemens' 3G technology as an example. Finally, it discusses countermeasures for the development of technological alliances among Chinese enterprises.