Knowledge embeddedness and the transfer mechanisms in multinational corporations

Parent company benefits from reverse knowledge transfer: The role of the liability of newness in MNEs

“…Given our results, future research could also aim to revisit the analysis of RKT in MNEs to account for the interdependence of unit age on other well-recognized drivers. Recent studies (e.g., Hong & Nguyen, 2009) have shown that for effective RKT, transfer mechanisms should be associated with certain types of knowledge. Accordingly, future research could proceed in examining whether these relationships are influenced by the age of the subsidiary engaged in the transfer.…”

An exploration of multinational enterprise knowledge resources and foreign subsidiary performance

“…As discussed earlier, adapting and integrating valuable technological and marketing knowledge can produce synergistic results. The subsidiary can realize these results through mutual adaptation of the assimilated technological and marketing knowledge (Hong & Nguyen, 2009). The higher the subsidiary and parent's technological relatedness, the more effectively parent firm technological knowledge can be adapted.…”

Enriching Absorptive Capacity through Social Interaction

“…Instead, there is much less work that looks at the role of social interaction within MNE units, and we consequently know relatively little about the extent to which knowledge transfer and adoption is contingent on subsidiaries' social context. Finally, MNE knowledge research still pays little attention to the changes knowledge inflows and the receiving context undergo when transferred knowledge is integrated (BeckerRitterspach, 2006;Hong and Nguyen 2009). Thus, how received knowledge is translated, interpreted, and locally integrated, or the transformative aspect of knowledge transfer, is often ignored.…”