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Offshoring and Improvisational Learning: Empirical Insights into Developing Global R&D Capabilities

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  • Vinit Parida
  • Joakim Wincent
  • Marko Kohtam�ki

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This study examines how global research and development (R&D) capabilities develop through improvisational learning. Using empirical insights from two large Swedish multinational companies and their early learning from establishing a captive R&D offshore unit in Bangalore, India, we use multicase inductive analysis to identify how companies cope with challenge related to coordinating R&D across geographically dispersed units through improvisational learning. Using a cooperative stage model analysis, we explain how improvisational learning occurs during the setup, start-up and ongoing stages of establishing captive R&D offshoring operations. We find that improvisational actions lead to developing routines as a response to solving unexpected coordination challenges and help explain how global R&D capabilities develop.

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  • Vinit Parida & Joakim Wincent & Marko Kohtam�ki, 2013. "Offshoring and Improvisational Learning: Empirical Insights into Developing Global R&D Capabilities," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(6), pages 544-562, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:indinn:v:20:y:2013:i:6:p:544-562
    DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2013.833373
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    1. Parida, Vinit & Wincent, Joakim & Oghazi, Pejvak, 2016. "Transaction costs theory and coordinated safeguards investment in R&D offshoring," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 69(5), pages 1823-1828.
    2. Mashiho Mihalache & Oli R. Mihalache, 2020. "What is Offshoring Management Capability and How Do Organizations Develop It? A Study of Dutch IT Service Providers," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 37-67, February.
    3. Patel, Pankaj C. & Parida, Vinit & Jayaram, Jayanth & Oghazi, Pejvak, 2018. "Task equivocality and process modularity in R&D offshore collaboration projects," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 12-22.

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