As a field of research, the joint of innovation and internationalization is eminently fruitful because these two aspects of management have a reinforcing influence on one another. Innovation enables internationalization, internationalization triggers innovation. A balanced set of authors, from near to far and from upcoming to established reflect in this special issue of mir the latest research in this area.

The latest research in the areas of Innovation and Internationalization

Autorentext
Dr. Jan Hendrik Fisch is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Management, Organization and Human Resource Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.

Inhalt
Guest Editor's Introduction.- Regional Strategies of Multinational Pharmaceutical Firms.- Distributed Knowledge and Creativity in the International Software Industry.- The Internationalization of R&D the Swiss Case.- Lead Markets: A New Framework for the International Diffusion of Innovation.- Knowledge Management, Cognitive Coherence, and Equivocality in Distributed Innovation Processes in MNCs.- Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations: Evidence from German Firms.- Allocating Innovative Activities in International R&D with Fuzzy Logic.