International Transfer Process Research Articles

Developing Innovation Transfer Capacity in a Cross-National Firm

The study presented in this article analyzes an attempt to transfer a discontinuous product innovation across national boundaries within a biopharmaceutical company. The commercialization process, which had been effective within the company's home market, was less effective in Europe and Japan. The study concludes that when the company engaged in a transformational change intervention, it was able to improve the effectiveness of its international transfer process. The changes required were emergent rather than planned; they were driven by a renewed strategy and did not use the tools of OD nor embed itself in the humanistic values typically associated with OD. The study provides insight into the requirements of product transfer and commercialization to international subsidiaries, which needs to be approached as an international organizational change process, which the authors define as strategically aligned alterations in patterns of employee behavior across international borders.

International transfer of technology system

The nature, cost, and impact of the complex phenomenon of international transfer of technology have been studied at some length, but those concerning the transfer process have yet to draw adequate attention. The paper attempts to describe the international transfer of technology process at a microenterprise level with the help of the systems approach. The causal interrelationship between these elements and their components is argued. Next, the model is utilized to analyze an actual case of technology transfer. There, the particular systems output performance is evaluated, and the behavioral abnormalities are explained against the peculiarities of its internal structure. The paper thus demonstrates the use of the system in analyzing the process of international transfer of technology. The case study also identifies the implications of various elements of the internal structure on the overall performance of the system.