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Knowledge flows are a key source of advantage for multinational corporations (MNCs). As research on subsidiary … qualitative data on 40 cases of subsidiary managers' knowledge mobilizations, this paper unravels some of the micro …-level practices of knowledge mobilizations in MNCs. We find that subsidiary manager's knowledge mobilization practices initiate a …
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Knowledge flows are a key source of advantage for multinational corporations (MNCs). As research on subsidiary … qualitative data on 40 cases of subsidiary managers' knowledge mobilizations, this paper unravels some of the micro …-level practices of knowledge mobilizations in MNCs. We find that subsidiary manager's knowledge mobilization practices initiate a …
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(MNC) learning is to adapt, create and diffuse new knowledge. Departing from the common focus on the subsidiary's assigned … mandate, this study takes a problemistic search perspective to explore subsidiary managers' actions in detail. A qualitative … framework of subsidiary managers' roles in MNC learning, depicting how the framing of the problem influences knowledge search …
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This paper studies patenting decisions by firms in relation to the negotiation and signing of the Helsinki and Oslo protocol as part of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. We use a uniquely constructed patent data set on SO2 abatement technologies filed in 15 signatory and...
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In contrast to empirical evidence, recent theories of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) assume perfect knowledge transfers – from high to low productivity firms – between acquirer and target. Using the Melitz (2003) model of heterogeneous firms, we develop a matching model of...
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Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...
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