Managing Foreign Subsidiaries in Emerging Countries: Are They Different from Western Subsidiaries?

Investigating Japanese Business Affiliates’ Cross-Border Knowledge Transfer In Northern Malaysia

“…The research results show that the trusting relationship between Japanese companies and their Malaysian business affiliates does encourage the latter to acquire new knowledge. Other studies have found that trust could foster knowledge creation (Sankowska, 2016;Sasaki et al, 2016).…”

“…To form deeper trusting relationships, the Japanese are also said to have a preference for having socialization outside the work setting (Elvin & Johansson, 2017;Higuchi & Yamanaka, 2017;Merchant, 2018). The level of trust as well as the scope and scale of shared organizational resources is said to be able to facilitate the willingness to acquire knowledge from the parent company (Sasaki et al , 2016). Hence, this can lead to higher learning intentions from the Malaysian business partners and subsequently make knowledge transfer more effective.…”