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" Globalisation of innovation and firm-level transformations in the new economy : "
Fikirkoca, Ali
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Fikirkoca, Ali
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Globalisation of innovation and firm-level transformations in the new economy :\ Fikirkoca, Ali
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The University of Manchester
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2004
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2004
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Ph.D.
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The aims of this thesis are:To develop and offer an analytical/theoretical framework to understand the interactionof key factors shaping the innovation process (organisational, institutional and - theoften forgotten role of - global political economy factors).To apply our theoretical/analytical framework to the analysis of the new economysector.To do so with a specific focus on the key role played by the Multinational Corporation(MNC) under the conditions of an ever integrated world economy: firstly by providingan analysis of global industrial conditions coming out of cross-border inter-finnarrangements (mergers, acquisitions and alliances) orchestrated by the MNCs andsecondly by analysing the ensuing impact of this participation on the social conditionsof innovative enterprise in the case of French and UK MNCs.To provide a better understanding of the new economy phenomenon and thecontemporary conditions of innovation process (especially the role of the emergingtransnational innovation space).This thesis is organised as following.The first chapter introduces the reader to the discussion and provides an outline of thedirection and structure of the thesis which is organised in three parts.The first part of the PhD is concerned with the ideas which will enable us to produce ananalysis of the data which will take up the second and third part of the thesis. The first twochapters are concerned with an analysis of the literature on innovation by writers such asRobert Boyer, Carlota Perez, William Lazonick and Richard Whitley.This literature review will address the background on which our argument is based.To highlight the contribution of the innovation process to economic developmentunder the conditions of capitalism (systemic effects).ivTo develop a better understanding of the innovation process by depicting theunderlying key factors involved (the role of 'necessary impurities') and with a specificfocus on the main actor of the innovation process: the firm.To develop an analytical/conceptual model that incorporates all the 'necessaryimpurities' contributing to the innovation process especially emphasising the oftenforgotten role of the exogenous factors associated with the global political economy inthe innovation process (dominance effects and international institutions).The following chapters will then apply our analytical framework to the analysis of the neweconomy, in two separate parts, in order to understand the contemporary conditions of theinnovation process in an ever-increasingly integrated world economy.The second part of our thesis, will examine criticallly the literature in order to analyse theexogenous (global political economy) factors associated with the emergence of the neweconomy, shaping the transnational innovation process.This requires firstly the understanding of dominance effects in the new economy (theinfluence exercised by the US industrial leadership). This in return will require theidentification of the social conditions of the inovative enterprise (chapter 4) and theensuing industrial conditions (chapter 5) of this country as we have previously arguedin our theoretical/conceptual model of the innovation process.This will also require the understanding of the international rules of game and the roleof the EU and Asia challenging US leadership (chapter 6).This literature review is followed by a methodology chapter, in the third part of our thesis,that will link the theoretical considerations of the literature to methodological concepts. Thischapter will be followed by our empirical research. Therefore part three is organised asfollows.In chapter 7 we develop a methodology to analyse the global impact of dominanceeffects in the new economy.vIn chapter 8 we analyse the global industrial conditions through an analysis of crossborderinter-finn arrangements (strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions) of 37Multinational Corporations that are market leaders in the new economy and that arethe primary actors in the transnational economy.In chapter 9 we analyse the social conditions of innovative enterprise in the Frenchand the UK MNCs that are challenged by the dominance effects.We will then conclude our thesis, before outlining the limitations of the PhD and areas forfurther related research.vi
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