A Memoir and Reflection: Knowledge and an Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Firm 10 Years Later

The production of the 1993 article awarded the JIBS Decade Award was written during a time when ideas regarding knowledge and the international expansion of the firm confronted a hostile audience. The sources of these ideas were directly related in Winter's and Roger's prior work, but also...

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Published inJournal of international business studies Vol. 34; no. 6; pp. 505 - 515
Main Authors Kogut, Bruce, Zander, Udo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basingstoke Academy of International Business, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen Denmark, and the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University 01.11.2003
Palgrave Macmillan
SeriesJournal of International Business Studies
Subjects
Appropriate technology
Business structures
Business studies
Careers
Communities
Costs
Economic resources
Economic sociology
Evolutionary economics
Evolutionary theories
Firm theory
History
International business
Jibs
Knowledge
Management science
Multinational corporations
Multinational enterprises
Organization theory
Research trends
Sex discrimination
Studies
Technology transfer
Transaction costs
Value chain
Writing
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Summary:The production of the 1993 article awarded the JIBS Decade Award was written during a time when ideas regarding knowledge and the international expansion of the firm confronted a hostile audience. The sources of these ideas were directly related in Winter's and Roger's prior work, but also to a broader literature on 'category errors' and technology transfer. The theory of the firm as a social community is a distinctly sociological theory and, though sharing many key ideas with the resource-based view that developed at the same time, is deeply opposed to engineering conceptions of firms as Legomodular pieces that can be easily shifted, bought, and sold. We describe our individual biographies and the subsequent intellectual development of the concepts in our article.
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ISSN:0047-2506
1478-6990
DOI:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400066