Knowledge creation capability in MNC subsidiaries: Examining the roles of global and local knowledge inflows and subsidiary knowledge stocks

Çolakoğlu, Saba; Yamao, Sachiko; Lepak, David P.

doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2013.08.009

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“…The relative merits of the local environment and parent organization as sources of knowledge is however disputed. For example, Colakoglu, Yamao, & Lepak (2014) suggest that local knowledge inflows are more important for subsidiary innovation, while Asmussen, Foss, & Pedersen (2013) find that knowledge outflows more likely benefit other units in the MNE if they not only tap into the hostcountry knowledge base, but also combine relevant external and internal knowledge before the transfer.…”

Section: Resource-based Perspectivesmentioning

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Managing the MNE subsidiary: Advancing a multi-level and dynamic research agenda

2020

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Multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries abroad are important organizations in their own rights. They typically hold some of the MNE's most critical resources, and operate at the forefront of complex international environments. In this review, we identify and organize theoretical and empirical research on subsidiary management based on over 600 articles in leading academic journals. We develop a conceptual framework that integrates complementary streams of theoretical and empirical research with the subsidiary as its focal unit of analysis. In particular, we review six lines of research on subsidiary scope, practices, knowledge management, engagement with local market and nonmarket actors, performance, and individuals within subsidiaries. We highlight theoretical perspectives that have contributed to, and been advanced by, research on MNE subsidiaries. Based on the review, we explore future research agendas, linking the contemporary research themes with two main thrusts. First, subsidiary management is a multi-level phenomenon that would benefit from more microfoundational research. Second, subsidiary management operates at key interfaces of technology paradigm shifts, and of disruptions in the political and institutional environment. Research into the dynamics of subsidiary management would thus enhance our understanding of international business in a volatile global economy. Journal of International Business Studies (2020) 51, 538-576.

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2020

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“…Knowledge is an indispensable organizational capital (Colakoglu et al, 2014) that is built through synergetic contributions of individual knowledge. An organization's knowledge, which produces its strategic intelligence (Luu, 2013a), is especially crucial in health-care service since knowledge contributes to the improvement of treatment quality, reduction of clinical errors (Wheeler & Wheeler, 2005), and the sustainability of community health.…”

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The chain effect from human resource-based clinical governance through emotional intelligence and CSR to knowledge sharing

Tuan

2016

Knowledge Management Research & Practice

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Clinical governance is a transcendent force to steer clinicians towards patients and other clinicians in health-care organizations. This empirical research seeks to examine the chain effect from clinical governance, which is promoted by human resource (HR) practices, through emotional intelligence (EI) and corporate social responsibility (CSR), to knowledge sharing. Through the investigation of the responses from 418 middle-level clinicians, the proposed model was tested through the structural equation modelling-based analysis. Research results confirmed the role of clinical governance in leveraging EI and ethical CSR among clinicians, which are activators of knowledge sharing. The contribution of HR practices to clinical governance was also revealed from data analysis. Managerial implications on clinical governance indicators that aim to shape EI and CSR in health-care organizations were grounded from research findings.

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“…According to this view, the ability of a subsidiary to create valuable and unique knowledge assets -not just to harness knowledge transferred from its parent firm -is a core part of the subsidiary-specific advantages that enable the subsidiary to perform effectively in the local market (Rugman & Verbeke, 2001). Thus, identifying the potential sequential processes through which a subsidiary creates valuable knowledge is increasingly important in enhancing the sustained competitive advantage of the entire MNC (Colakoglu, Yamao & Lepak, 2014;Fang, Fang, Jiang, Makino & Beamish, 2010).…”

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“…While the significance of understanding the knowledge creation capability of a subsidiary has been widely acknowledged in the MNC literature, relatively few empirical studies have been conducted in this line of enquiry (Andersson, Björkman, & Forsgren, 2005;Belderbos & Heijltjes, 2005;Colakoglu et al, 2014). First, with regard to antecedents to subsidiary knowledge creation, research has suggested that external knowledge flows to a subsidiary are a key factor enhancing the knowledge creation capability of the subsidiary, alongside other factors that facilitate the utilization of the sourced knowledge in the knowledge creation process (Almeida & Phene, 2004;Andersson et al, 2005;Colakoglu et al, 2014;Phene & Almeida, 2008). However, empirical studies did not fully support this view as they found that only external local knowledge inflows are conducive to subsidiary knowledge creation (e.g., Colakoglu et al, 2014;Phene & Almeida, 2008).…”

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Expatriate utilization, subsidiary knowledge creation and performance: The moderating role of subsidiary strategic context

Kawai

Chung

2019

Journal of World Business

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Little research examines the mechanisms for the relationship between expatriate utilization and subsidiary performance. Building on the knowledge-based view of the firm, we propose a multi-stage mediation model to explain how expatriate staffing promotes subsidiary financial performance. Our results underscore that expatriate utilization has an indirect, mediated effect on subsidiary financial performance through its links with subsidiaries' knowledge creation and product performance. Adopting a moderated mediation approach, we also find that the indirect relationship between expatriate utilization and subsidiary product performance via subsidiary knowledge creation is strengthened by the context of transnational strategy as a moderating contingency.

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Knowledge creation capability in MNC subsidiaries: Examining the roles of global and local knowledge inflows and subsidiary knowledge stocks

Cited by 52 publications

References 80 publications

Managing the MNE subsidiary: Advancing a multi-level and dynamic research agenda

Managing the MNE subsidiary: Advancing a multi-level and dynamic research agenda

The chain effect from human resource-based clinical governance through emotional intelligence and CSR to knowledge sharing

Expatriate utilization, subsidiary knowledge creation and performance: The moderating role of subsidiary strategic context

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