The deployment of inter-subsidiary innovations within a multinational company1.

Summary The subsidiaries of a multinational company must reconcile local adaptation and global integration. To analyze this, we propose the notion of inter-subsidiary innovation deployment, which we define as the sequence of commercializations of an innovation by subsidiaries located in differentiated local contexts, and thus requiring its adaptation each time. Based on a longitudinal analysis of five innovation deployments in a multinational company, we highlight four critical factors that we link to knowledge construction and sharing mechanisms. We thus discuss Tallmann and Chacar's (2011) theoretical model of knowledge transfer and specify the conditions for its implementation.