Cross-border flow of knowledge is fraught with many challenges. The complexity associated with the organization of multinational corporations (MNCs) and the information asymmetry in foreign locations pose particular challenges to knowledge flow. Yet, effective transfer of knowledge is critical...

In this paper we explicate the role of external knowledge search motives and host country context (local embeddedness) in driving different knowledge outcomes in offshoring. Drawing on the offshoring/offshore outsourcing literature, we develop a classification scheme based on different knowledge...