Enhancing knowledge transfer in multinational corporations: a dynamic capabilities driven model

While the possession of knowledge-based assets endows a firm with the potential to benefit following internationalization, a distinct ability to transfer knowledge efficiently is also required. The application of social capital theory has contributed important insights into the processes underlying...

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Published inKnowledge management research & practice Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 34 - 43
Main Author Gooderham, Paul N
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basingstoke Taylor & Francis 01.02.2007
Macmillan
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Competitive advantage
Computer science; control theory; systems
Costs
dynamic capabilities
Exact sciences and technology
Foreign subsidiaries
Knowledge
knowledge transfer
multi-national corporations
Multinational corporations
Product development
Social capital
Knowledge engineering
Social influence
Model driven architecture
Transmission channel
Multinational corporation
Knowledge base
Capital
multi-national corporations
Conceptual analysis
Knowledge transfer
Social psychology
dynamic capabilities
Dynamic model
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Summary:While the possession of knowledge-based assets endows a firm with the potential to benefit following internationalization, a distinct ability to transfer knowledge efficiently is also required. The application of social capital theory has contributed important insights into the processes underlying knowledge transfer within the MNC. However, from a practitioner stand point this perspective needs to be supplemented in two ways. First, there is a need to take into account the influence of the external environment and second a need to incorporate the role dynamic capabilities, in the form of management-initiated practices, can play in enhancing levels of social capital. The latter include transmission channels, socialization mechanisms and motivational mechanisms. It is these mechanisms that represent the key modifiable elements in facilitating knowledge flows. The paper concludes with a conceptual model for the study of intra-MNC knowledge transfers that embraces the various facets of social capital, the influence of the external environment and modifiable practices.
ISSN:1477-8238
1477-8246
DOI:10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500119