Download or read book Factors Affecting Knowledge Transfer and Absorptive Capacity in Multinational Corporations written by Y. Lee Choong and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research Handbook on Knowledge Transfer and International Business written by Khan, Zaheer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and engaging Research Handbook provides a full examination of the modes and mechanisms of international knowledge transfer. Furthermore, it also provides in-depth insights into international knowledge transfer related challenges faced by multinational enterprises (MNEs).

Download or read book Governing Knowledge Processes written by Volker Mahnke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this special issue is to contribute to the understanding of Knowledge Governance in the Mulitnational Corporation. Like the traditional literature on corporate governance the authors are concerned with the attraction of crucial capital, its efficient allocation, as well as the mechanism used to achieve capital accumulation and optimal utilization. Knowledge as a particular sort of capital is seen as increasingly crucial to the existence, boundaries, and economic organization of modern Multinational Corporation.

Download or read book Factors in the Effective Transfer of Knowledge from Multinational Enterprises to Their Foreign Subsidiaries written by José Duarte Moleiro Martins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this article is to better understand the role of internal stakeholders in subsidiaries of multinational companies (MNCs) in order to offer potential insights into the cross-border transfer of knowledge from those companies' headquarters to their subsidiaries. The focus is upon subsidiaries in developing countries, here Mozambique. More specifically, the article is concerned with identifying factors that influence the learning of internal stakeholders and noting practices which seem associated with a high level of absorptive capacity and performance of subsidiaries. The starting point is evidence of ineffective transfer of knowledge by MNCs to their subsidiaries in developing countries, with consequent sub-standard performance. The research reported involves four case studies of Portuguese companies operating in Mozambique and draws on data from interviews with senior and middle managers in the firms' Mozambican subsidiaries. The results obtained suggest that successful knowledge transfer to overseas subsidiaries is found under the following conditions. First, the parent company knows the local context and provides a flow of relevant information. Second, application of knowledge locally is done flexibly to suit local circumstances. Next, a participatory approach is used so that local staff can see why the knowledge conveyed is necessary. Fourth, explanation and demonstration are key techniques, with major roles for on-the-job training, continuous improvement and training at headquarters. Finally, issues arising from local culture may need to be addressed.

Download or read book Organizational Networks written by Martin Kilduff and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the wealth of insights into organizational life accumulated over the past few decades, this collection takes stock of the foundations of research in this area, examines the status of the current work and identifies future directions for the field. Topics covered include theoretical and methodological foundations; social capital; strong ties, weak ties and structural holes; small worlds/network structures; centrality and power; social networks of entrepreneurship; identity, cognition and individual differences in social networks; and network dynamics.

Download or read book The Role of Knowledge Transfer in Open Innovation written by Almeida, Helena and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ways in which codified and tacit knowledge are sourced, transferred, and combined are critical in furthering open innovation. When used effectively, knowledge sharing and organizational success are significantly increased, improving products and services. The Role of Knowledge Transfer in Open Innovation is a collection of innovative research on a set of analyses, reflections, and recommendations within the framework of knowledge transfer practices in different areas of knowledge and in various industries. While highlighting topics including tacit knowledge, organizational culture, and knowledge representation, this book is ideally designed for professionals, academicians, and researchers seeking current research on the best practices for transfer of knowledge as an intermediate open innovation.

Download or read book Effective Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations written by T. Chini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shifts the debate on knowledge transfers within multinational corporations (MNCs) back to its core: How can we increase the effectiveness of cross-boarder transfers of knowledge? Several perspectives on international knowledge flows, from control issues to cultural barriers, are integrated into a comprehensive framework. Based on a sample of leading MNCs, empirical results show which managerial mechanisms have to be implemented to increase the benefit from knowledge transfers in headquarters and subsidiaries.

Download or read book Know How Transfer by Multinational Corporations to Developing Countries written by Peter P. Merten and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a system dynamics model with spiral loops for studying know-how transfer by multinational corporations to developing countries. The model conceptualizes the interplay of the subsidiary's absorptive capacity with technology-leveraging and technology-seeking behaviors in the knowledge transfer process, and highlights the significance of spirals in engendering nonlinearities and feedbacks. It provides insights into the unique features of the knowledge transfer process and the mechanisms underlying successful and unsuccessful outcomes, and enhances the understanding of the conditions necessary for implementing effective knowledge transfer programs in developing countries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Expatriate Management Absorptive Capacity of Knowledge and Subsidiary Performance the Case of Japan based Multinational Companies in Thailand and Singapore written by Wataru Ogushi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of expatriates on knowledge transfer in foreign subsidiaries has been a focus of research on knowledge management in multinational companies (MNCs). This study combines knowledge-based view, the concept of absorptive capacity, and studies on expatriates literature’s approach to examine the effect from expatriates on transfer of two kinds of MNC’s knowledge (i.e. technological knowledge and marketing knowledge). This paper also analyzes the impact of knowledge absorptive capacity on subsidiary performance to examine how expatriates affect subsidiary performance by knowledge transfer. This study ran analysis of 33 subsidiaries of Japan-based firms in Thailand and Singapore over a 16-year period. Results of analysis indicate that the composition of expatriates in subsidiary workforce 1: promotes absorptive capacity on technological knowledge of subsidiary, but 2: hinders absorptive capacity on marketing knowledge of subsidiary. In addition, absorptive capacity of two kinds of knowledge in subsidiary 3: does not gain subsidiary performance by working separately, but 4: gain subsidiary performance by working together. The implications for expatriate management study and knowledge transfer literature are discussed.

Download or read book Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Enterprises written by Margaret Spring Schomaker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Knowledge Flows Governance and the Multinational Enterprise written by V. Mahnke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the understanding of Knowledge Governance in the Multinational Corporation. Intra-firm and inter-firm processes of knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation have attracted increasingly managerial and scholarly interest. However the relation between particular knowledge processes, determinants of organizational choices, governance mechanisms, their relevant costs and benefits, and associated strategic advantages remain less well understood. To address these challenges, this book gives answers to the following questions. What are key challenges of governing knowledge in the multinational corporation? How do contingencies influence relevant trade-offs? How do sets of governance mechanisms respond to problems of cognition and incentives?

Download or read book Knowledge Emergence written by Ikujiro Nonaka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the research of a number of scholars in the field of knowledge creation and imparts a sense of order to the field. The chapters share three characteristics: they are all grounded in extensive qualitative and/or quantitative research; they all go beyond the mere description of the knowledge-creation process and offer both theoretical and strategic implications; they share a view of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer as delicate processes, necessitating particular forms of support from managers.

Download or read book Knowledge Transfer within Multinational Corporations written by 王方 and published by 社会科学文献出版社. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 知識轉移已經在國際商務、知識管理等學術領域受到持續不斷的關注。本書從2000～2014年刊載的國際經營管理學術期刊論文中，總結出與知識轉移有關的核心因素；並結合知識轉移分析框架(KTA)，設計出“雙缺口模型”(Twogap Model)。然後通過對位於湖北省武漢市的100多家跨國公司進行問卷調查開展層次回歸分析，進而得出結論：海外子公司的吸收能力、共同願景、信任和團隊合作對縮小跨國公司和海外子公司之間的知識缺口有積極的影響，而語言障礙對此有消極的影響。

Download or read book Managing Knowledge Absorptive Capacity And Innovation written by Joe Tidd and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge Management focuses on identifying, sharing, storing, and exploiting internal knowledge, whereas Open Innovation is more concerned with sources of external knowledge. However, this simple dichotomy between open and closed approaches is unhelpful and not realistic. Instead, it is the interaction between internal and external knowledge that creates dynamic capabilities and the ability to innovate. In particular, we need to better understand the interactions between internal and external knowledge, and how these influence innovation outcomes under different conditions. This edited volume, Managing Knowledge, Absorptive Capacity, and Innovation, provides an opportunity to combine contemporary interests in Open Innovation with the classic notion of absorptive capacity, to better understand how organisations can manage the absorption and exploitation of inbound external sources of knowledge in order to innovate.

Download or read book Knowledge Transfer Enablers and Innovation Performance of International Strategic Alliances written by Vijita Aggarwal and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamics of globalization has amplified the importance of collaborative forms of organizations in international business. Strategic alliance is a result of such demanding business regime. Knowledge is increasingly replacing traditional resources like land, labour, and capital to become the basic economic resource in the modern era. Knowledge transfer is one of the most critical parts of knowledge management process enabling exchange of important information which is essential for efficient working of international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and other types of strategic alliances. Thus the purpose of this study is to provide an integrated framework, after doing a structural and systematic and structural literature review, linking knowledge transfer enablers with innovation performance of international strategic alliances. Organizational knowledge transfer enablers have been identified from literature. Research gap has been identified that there is relatively less studies on the topic of impact of knowledge transfer on innovation performance of international strategic alliances, while incorporating the mediating/moderating role of absorptive capacity, especially in Indian context. Thus this study has tried to provide an integrated framework to fill this research gap. All the variables in the framework are explored in detail to identify their items for developing a questionnaire for future empirical testing. The current paper is conceptual in nature and undertakes qualitative research. It uses secondary sources of data including research studies of national and international repute on the subject of knowledge management in international strategic alliances.Systematic and structural review of literature has been done. Various knowledge transfer enablers have been identified from literature. Various items for measuring different constructs of knowledge transfer enablers, transferred knowledge, absorptive capacity of the alliance and innovation performance of international strategic alliances will be identified. These items will be used for developing a questionnaire after experts' opinion and proper validation process. The questionnaire will be developed after adapting various standardised scales of different variables according to Indian context for future empirical testing in international joint ventures. Top and middle level corporate managers of currently operating international strategic alliances in India since 1992, having knowledge about the concerned area, will form the population for this pan India study. Factor analysis will be applied to confirm various knowledge transfer enablers identified from literature. Smart-PLS will be used to check the various relationships of the research framework and to check the model fit.According to literature, organizational factors like strategy, culture, organizational structure and design and technological factors like IT based systems have a significant impact on knowledge transfer. These variables have been made more specific after extensive structural and systematic literature review. Thus learning strategy, trust culture, flexible organizational structure and design, IT based systems in context of international strategic alliances are included in the proposed research framework. Knowledge transfer dimensions are identified as tacit/personalized and explicit/codified. Dimensions of innovation performance have been explored and identified as product & service innovation, process & technical innovation. All these constructs are used to develop an integrated framework and a questionnaire will be developed for future empirical testing.The paper is conceptual in nature thus lacks empirical evidence. Despite the researchers best attempt some items effecting knowledge transfer might have been left untouched. This study proposes a framework for international strategic alliances like joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions which require rigorous knowledge transfer, future studies may concentrate on other forms of strategic alliances like licensing, franchising, etc. which require different styles of knowledge transfer. It is proposed to be a cross-industry study which may result in general results, thus demanding a need for industry specific knowledge transfer studies. Industry specific studies may yield detailed results as some industries may be more knowledge specific for example software industry in comparison to transport industry. The study has provided a relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation performance but has ignored other important parameters of performance like financial performance, operational performance, etc. which future researchers may take into consideration. Despite these limitations, this study is one of the early attempts in India to study the impact of knowledge transfer on international strategic alliances' innovation performance.The current paper is an attempt to propose an integrated research framework which can study the impact of knowledge transfer on innovation performance in case of international strategic alliances. Very few researchers have incorporated factors, transferred knowledge, absorptive capacity and innovation performance in a single study. This study emphasizes on the moderating/mediating role played by absorptive capacity in influencing the relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation performance. As per the proposed propositions 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, the first part of the proposed research framework studies the direct relationship between various knowledge transfer enablers and knowledge transfer in terms of codified and personalized knowledge transfer. An important variable: absorptive capacity is added in the framework to study its role in the relationship of knowledge transfer and innovation performance. Literature has supported moderating role of absorptive capacity as proposed by proposition 2. Thus it is incorporated in the framework but the relationship will be confirmed with empirical testing. As per proposition 3, knowledge transfer has also been directly linked to innovation performance of the business firm. The second part of the framework takes into consideration the relationship between knowledge transfer and international strategic alliances' innovation performance. The framework is presented diagrammatically in figure. This study will help future researchers as a comprehensive review on the topic and will be useful for alliance managers as well to improve knowledge transfer for better performance. It can also be helpful in improving the survival rate of alliances as effective knowledge transfer helps employees (or strategic alliance partners) to understand each other in a better manner thus improving the co-operation among them which is essential for survival and growth. Thus this review study has many implications for academicians as well as alliance managers. The study is original in nature. It has proposed an original integrated framework to study the impact of knowledge transfer on innovation performance of international strategic alliances in India.

Download or read book Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations written by Lars Hakanson and published by Gabler Verlag. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: effective knowledge transfer will not come about automatically but requires appropriate and concerted managerial action. This is especially tme in multina tional organizations created though mergers and acquisitions. In such organiza tions, individual subunits are not only subjected to the isomorphic pulls of their respective local environments (Westney 1993) but are often characterized also by different organizational cultures, administrative heritage and work practices. As a long stream of research on mergers and acquisition testifies, achieving syner gies through knowledge sharing in such circumstances is associated with formid able obstac1es. The theoretical basis of much current literature on knowledge and knowledge transfer can be traced from Nelson and Winter's (1982) seminal work, over Win ter's (1987) conjecture regarding the trade-offs between tacitness and codifica tion of knowledge to a celebrated series of artic1es by Kogut and Zander (1992, 1993, 1996). It conceptualizes the multinational firm as a social community that specializes in the creation and transfer of knowledge. 'Higher order organiza tional routines' and the 'identifications' of their employees place firms in the privileged position to be able to intemally transfer knowledge, especially in its more 'tacit' varieties, more rapidly and cheaply than this can be accomplished through third-party licensing or through involuntary imitation. In this approach, the existence of firms is explained without invocation of 'opportunism' or other transaction cost considerations - a fact that has no doubt contributed to its wide spread appeal.

Download or read book International Transfer of Knowledge in Multinational Enterprises The Role of International Human Resource Management in Transferring Tacit Knowledge Across Borders written by Agnieszka Osiecka and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-03-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1.0 (A), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (FB BWL), language: English, abstract: In the world of today, business is no longer limited by national boundaries. The majority of the world’s large corporations perform a significant portion of their activities outside their home countries. The rapidly emerging global economy creates numerous opportunities for businesses to expand their revenues, drive down their costs and boost their profits. At the same time, markets have become fierce battlegrounds where firms have to fight aggressively for market share with domestic and foreign competitors. It is commonly accepted that one of the primary sources for competitive advantage of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in this globalized business environment is their ability to transfer superior knowledge at the international level1 and to create a “learning organization”2. To succeed, or at least survive, in the global market-place, organizations need to adapt quickly to the changing environment and must commit themselves to permanent learning. This paper presents a general overview of the process of international knowledge transfer within multinational enterprises. It deals with the problems of organizational knowledge creation and sharing. A particular emphasis is placed on the implications for international human resource management practices in managing the international transfer of employees, since global assignments are recognized hierin as the most important mechanism of transferring tacit knowledge3 across borders. As the sharing of easily codifiable knowledge is relatively easy to manage, the means of transferring it are not focused on in this study. [...] 1 See, for instance, Kogut, B. and Zander, U. (1992): „Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology“, Organizational Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 383-397; Kogut, B. and Zander, U. (1993): „Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Corporation“, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 24, pp. 625-645; Björkman, I. and Forsgren, M. (1997): „The Nature of the International Firm. Nordic Contributions to International Business Research“, Handelshojskolens Forlag, p. 71. 2 See, for instance, Garvin, D.A. (1993): „Building a Learning Organization“, Harvard Business Review, July/August, pp. 78-91. For definition of the learning organization see p. 23. 3 For definition of the tacit knowledge see p. 22.