This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/97279810880001263. When citing the article, please cite: Jehoshua Eliashberg, Sanjeev Swami, Charles Weinberg, Berend Wierenga, (2008), “Globally distributed R&D work in a marketing management support systems (MMSS) environment: a knowledge management perspective”, Journal of Advances in Management Research , Vol. 5 Iss: 1, pp. 7 - 20.