two activities: knowledge search and knowledge deployment. We predict theoretically that domestic firms have advantages … when they search for knowledge due to their embeddedness in the host country. However, this increased embeddedness reduces … the degree of novelty of their knowledge pool. Foreign MNC subsidiaries therefore have advantages in knowledge deployment …

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …