bio industries in india

• Autonomy of Foreign R&Amp;D Units in an Emerging Market: An Information Processing Perspective

This study uses an information processing view to assess how autonomy of foreign R&D units in a major emerging market is influenced by the organizational and environmental conditions they face. The researchers argue that specification of the autonomy is an optimal decision requiring a balance between the costs of information processing capacity and the needs of information processing for performing R&D tasks. The analysis suggests that autonomy of foreign R&D units increases when they emphasize development (as opposed to research) and local market (as opposed to global market), and decreases when R&D units face higher regulatory influence and lower industrial growth. R&D entry mode (alliance vs wholly-owned) does not have a main effect on autonomy specification but m...

... but also in emerging markets (e.g., India, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Brazil, South Korea, Me... influence varies markedly across industries in an emerging economy due to the idiosyncratic pa...

• Management International Review
• Band 46 Nr. 3, Mai 2006

• The Management of Human Resources in Malaysia: Locally-Owned Companies and Multinational Companies**

This paper is concerned with people management practices in companies in Malaysia. It examines the development of the main practice areas of the management of human resources (HR), the HR management (HRM) function and to what extent locally-owned companies (LOC) are influenced by multinational companies (MNC) operating in Malaysia. We found LOCs do not place a high priority on their HR practices and do not benchmark against the HR practices of MNCs. Overall, Malaysian people management generally would be better characterized as still more like 'personnel', than 'HR', management. Any acceptance and development of the HRM concept by Malaysian companies has been slow and cautious. This situation may prove problematic for future competitiveness and upgrading in the context of low wage cost ...

... began with the pioneer industries programme in 1958, with the subsequent establishme...) 26.0 percent Chinese, 7.7 percent Indians and 1.2 percent others (numerous small groups). Th...

• Management Revue
• Band 18 Nr. 4, Januar 2007