Globalization, Innovation, and Marketing Philosophy: A Critical Assessment of Role of Technology in Defining New Dimensions

Innovation

Christensen (2013) has been very critical in declaring the disturbing nature of innovation and he had suggested that any dilution in innovative thought process will fall without any further analysis. Managing innovation must take care of creative destruction (Bhat and Bowonder, 2001). New age innovation and technological variations have been deeply involved in social dislocation, uncertainty and indecision (Wolfe, 2000). Innovation has been resulted in excessive complexity and uncontrollable organizational dealings (Gerybadze and Reger, 1999). National innovation systems are missing vertical links as well as misplacing the national and global actor. This process of exclusion of vital partners ending in resulting confusion in global innovation networks (Hotz-Hart, 2000). Globalization requires more attention to innovate. Technological innovation energies globalization, and take along collaborations to global business scenario (Rycroft, 2003). Technological innovation affects globalization and this brings challenges in organizations in different shapes especially in R&D capabilities (Miao et al., 2007). Organizations capable enough of high level of innovation, learning and internationalization achieve competitiveness through globalization (Baffour and Amal, 2011). Knowledge intensive and sensitive industries are concentrated and cluttered in one place. This defies the concept of true globalization (Dunning, 2002). Organization’s R&D (innovation) and marketing activities are increasingly surpassing national boundaries and becoming more of international activities (Ready, 2002). Considering this internationally dispersed innovation activities, Bartlett and Ghoshal (1991) has pointed out four different kind of administrative and organizational structure. This confirms that managing innovation in global set up requires managerial adjustments. Organizations in an ever changing technological set up follow imitation to transform. They are following joint ventures to move from low to high level of innovation (Fan, 2011). Technology is making innovation converging and this is helping global adaptation of innovation process meaningful (Dekimpe et al., 2000). There is a positive relationship between global competition and innovation. This relationship does not change across different industries and service sectors (Gorodnichenko et al. 2010).