Knowledge Transfer and Innovation in Brazilian Multinational Companies

Maehler, Alisson Eduardo; Curado, Carla; Pedrozo, Eugênio Ávila; Pires, José Pedro Barreto Gamito

doi:10.4067/s0718-27242011000400001

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“…For this reason, the opposite flow (from subsidiary to parent company) is called reverse knowledge transfer (RKT). Other authors also refer to the RKT concept as reverse technology transfer (Belderbos, Van Roy, & Duvivier, 2013;Criscuolo, 2009;Driffield, Love, & Menghinello, 2010), reverse knowledge flow (Maehler, Curado, Pedroso, & Pires, 2011), reverse transfer of practices (Chung, 2014) and akin.…”

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Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Companies: A Systematic Literature Review

Kogut

Mello

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The mainstream literature has focused on knowledge transfers from parent companies to subsidiaries, while paying less attention to knowledge created at the subsidiary level. But there is a growing trend to knowledge co-creation, and the responsibility of knowledge creation has shifted from headquarters to the corporation as a whole and its subsidiaries. Using a thorough systematic review over a 15-year period in top-tier journals, this thematic analysis finds interesting literature gaps to be filled and proposes a theoretical framework that conceptualizes the reverse knowledge transfer as a complex process; moreover, we offer a detailed view on the phenomenon of reverse knowledge transfer, seeking to contribute to a better understanding of it and providing a basis to assist corporate managers in global strategic planning and knowledge management and scholars in future academic research in the field.

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Section: The Researchmentioning

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Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Companies: A Systematic Literature Review

Kogut

Mello

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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“…Contemporary research has been placing knowledge as the core source of firms' competitive advantage and competition among firms as relying increasingly on knowledge and innovation (Grant, 1996;McGrath, et al, 1996;Teece, 1998Teece, , 2000Argote and Ingram, 2000;Tallman, et al, 2004;Maehler, et al, 2011). Firms may develop knowledge and innovations in a number of different manners.…”

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“…Studies departing from this perspective emphasize the speed of imitation by competitors. The speed of imitation by competitors is a function of several characteristics: (a) potential rate of return of the innovation (depicted as the incentive to imitate by Hill, 1992), (b) effectiveness of the protection mechanisms such as patents (or barriers to imitation, according to Hill, 1992), (c) rivals' ability to imitate (Hill, 1992) or their skills, routines, (Nelson and Winter, 1982), resources (Barney, 1991), and complementary assets (Teece, 1986(Teece, , 1997, (e) rivals' technological relatedness (or technological distance, Tallman and Phene, 2002), (f) competitors access to the details and knowledge involved in the innovation, (g) nature of the knowledge involved in the innovation (e.g., tacit or explicit, Winter, 1987;Polanyi, 1967), and (h) ease of transfer of the innovation and/or knowledge across organizational boundaries Zander, 1992, 1993;Maehler, et al, 2011).…”

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Impact of the Types of Clusters on the Innovation Output and the Appropriation of Rents from Innovation

Ferreira

Serra

Costa

et al. 2012

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms' competitive advantage. Increasingly firms seek knowledge abundant locations, or industry clusters, to access novel knowledge and generate innovations through knowledge recombinations (Schumpeter, 1934). We examine how different types of clusters impact on the innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The type of cluster reflects the configuration of firms and the interactions among firms, individuals and agencies in the cluster and is likely to be a major driver of both the innovative output and of which firms will be more likely to capture the rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are excellent vehicles for the flow of knowledge that eases innovations, but different types of clusters may lead to different outcomes.Keywords: clusters; types of clusters; innovation; appropriation of rents; innovation rents. However, despite the now long debate on the role and benefits of clusters and the equally extensive work on innovation, with a handful of exceptions the extant research has largely failed to probe on the actual innovation output gestated in clusters and on the firms that capture the returns from the innovations (see also Ferreira, et al., 2012). For instance, industry clusters do not have a common configuration (Markusen, 1996;Romanellii and Khessina, 2005) and it may be that different types of clusters impact differently both the innovative output and the innovators' ability to capture the benefits from the innovations.In this paper we seek to complement and extend previous research on industry clusters and innovation. In specific we focus on how the different types of clusters -for which we use the typology advanced by Markusen (1996) -influence the rate and type of innovations and which firms will be more likely to capture the rents from innovation. Specifically, we suggest that we need to look into the characteristics of the cluster to observe how the flows of communication, information and knowledge and workers occur among firms co-located. If not all clusters are alike it seems reasonable that no single answer exist. The implications of this study extend to firms, since they are concerned with appropriating the benefits from their innovations, to public policy makers in designing policies to promote cluster formation and thus it does matter the type of cluster promoted, and to managers in deciding whether to locate, or not locate, in each type of cluster. This paper is organized as follows. First, we review relevant literature on innovation and on industry clusters, namely highlighting the argument that clusters are locations of unusually high innovation activity. Then, we move to present Markusen's (1996) typology of industry clusters to discuss how different types of clusters are likely to have differentiated impact on the innovation output a...

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“…This is the basic idea behind industrial clusters since they can promote and facilitate innovation through close relationships between partners and suppliers, facilitate monitoring of competitors in a cluster, enable the high availability and exchange of information, and allow the easy observation of technological trends and shifts in habits and customer needs (Becattini, 1990;Porter, 1999;Mytelka & Farinelli, 2000;Casarotto Filho & Pires, 2001;Suzigan et al, 2001;Carpinetti et al, 2008;Amato, 2009). In particular, this is the crucial role of clusters in the processes of innovation, considered learning by the interacting process (Salom & Albertos, 2006;Maehler et al, 2011;Kim et al, 2014).…”

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Relações verticais e horizontais no processo de inovação e aprendizagem interativa: estudo em um aglomerado produtivo

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Palavras-chave: Relações verticais e horizontais; Aprendizado interativo; Inovação em aglomerados produtivos.Abstract: This study sought to examine the vertical and horizontal relationships and the impact of these relationships on the process of innovation and learning by interacting, using a case study in an active industry cluster in Brazil. The methodology procedure was field research with a universe of 36 companies of the lumber industry. The research results helped identify the factors that prevent companies of a cluster from establishing more solid collaboration relationships capable of enhancing competitiveness. It was found that the prevailing mechanism in the business environment of the cluster was learning by doing, obtained from accumulated experiences and skills acquired locally, which allow the definition of adaptations and technological improvements. These findings reveal the need to create spaces inside the companies for learning by interacting and the development of new skills and competencies required for innovation.

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Knowledge Transfer and Innovation in Brazilian Multinational Companies

Cited by 17 publications

References 32 publications

Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Companies: A Systematic Literature Review

Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Companies: A Systematic Literature Review

Impact of the Types of Clusters on the Innovation Output and the Appropriation of Rents from Innovation

Relações verticais e horizontais no processo de inovação e aprendizagem interativa: estudo em um aglomerado produtivo

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