How controversial innovation succeeds in the periphery? A network perspective of BASF Argentina
研究了跨国公司在全球和组织外围的子公司如何创造并推行有争议的创新，基于巴斯夫阿根廷子公司的案例和员工知识共享网络调查，提出了三组关于外围创新机会的命题。
This article builds elements of a theory of peripheral innovation in transnational corporations. Although subsidiaries at the geographical periphery of the global economy and at the organizational periphery of their headquarters often contribute a negligible amount to the corporate global revenues, this article provides evidence on the role of these peripheries in knowledge creation and in enforcing controversial innovations. Based on an embedded and mixed-method case study of the Argentinean subsidiary of the chemical corporation BASF that uses qualitative interviews and a social network survey of knowledge sharing among employees, this article develops three sets of propositions about contextual and network opportunities for creating and enforcing innovations in the periphery of transnational corporations.