The objective of this special issue is to contribute to the understanding of Knowledge Governance in the Mulitnational Corporation. Like the traditional literature on corporate governance the authors are concerned with the attraction of crucial capital, its efficient allocation, as well as the mechanism used to achieve capital accumulation and optimal utilization. Knowledge as a particular sort of capital is seen as increasingly crucial to the existence, boundaries, and economic organization of modern Multinational Corporation.

Relevant governing knowledge based on international sciences

Vorwort
What are key challanges of governing knowledge? Here is the answer

Autorentext
Professor Mahnke ist Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics at the Copenhagen Business School.
Professor Pedersen ist Professor of International Business at the Deapartment of International Economics and Management at the Copenhagen Business School.

Inhalt
Guest Editors' Introduction.- Governing Knowledge Sharing in Multinational Enterprises.- Organization of Research and Development in Large Multinational Firms.- Governance of Knowledge-teams in the MNC: The Case of HeidelbergCement.- Knowledge Transfer Performance of Multinational Companies.- Knowledge Search and Governance Choice: International Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China.- Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Enablers in International Joint Ventures and their Foreign Parents.- Adaptation of Know-how for Cross-border Transfer.- Multinational Enterprises and Clusters: An Organizing Framework.