Offshoring and improvisational learning : empirical insights into developing global R&D capabilities

• This study examines the development of global R&D capabilities through improvisational learning. Using empirical insights of two large manufacturing companies and their early learning from establishment of a captive R&D offshore unit in Bangalore, we employ a multi-case inductive analysis to identify how they cope with coordination challenges through improvisational learning. By use of a cooperative stage model analysis, we explain how improvisational learning occurs during set-up, start-up and ongoing stages of establishing captive R&D offshoring. We find that improvisational actions lead to routine development as a response to solving unexpected coordination challenges and an explanation for the development of global R&D capabilities.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Annan teknik -- Övrig annan teknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Other Engineering and Technologies -- Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

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Entreprenörskap och innovation

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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