Knowledge-intensive business services: does dual embeddedness matter?
Building on network theory, this study investigates knowledge development in subsidiaries in the knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) sector. Foreign subsidiaries’ internal and external networks are divided into three main categories: relations with (1) the local environment (external embeddedness), (2) parent firms (subsidiary--parent firm embeddedness and autonomy), and (3) sister subsidiaries (subsidiary--subsidiary embeddedness). Hypotheses are tested using a sample of 184 subsidiaries, located in the UK, whose parent firms are based outside the UK. While our results indicate that external embeddedness, subsidiary--parent embeddedness, and autonomy are main determinants of knowledge development within KIBS multinational companies, they show no association between subsidiary--subsidiary embeddedness and knowledge development.
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2011
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Authors: | Najafi-Tavani, Zhaleh ; Giroud, Axèle ; Sinkovics, Rudolf R. |
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The Service Industries Journal. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0264-2069. - Vol. 32.2011, 10, p. 1691-1705
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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