Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Africa-China JVs: Interplay between Informalities, Culture, and Social Capital

Ado, Abdoulkadre; Su, Zhan; Wanjiru, Roseline

doi:10.1016/j.intman.2016.11.003

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“…To extend such country of origin competitive advantage to other emerging markets, EMNCs must reconfigure externally-available and firm-specific knowledge to promote cost, speed and channel advantages in the new host country. This requires interaction with host-country managers, workers and officials to generate "relevant knowledge" (Rui et al, 2016;Ado et al, 2017). That requirement indicates a key role for EMNC expatriates, who must extensively interact with host-country managers and employees to create knowledge that is affordable, applicable and assimilable in the host country.…”

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Chinese expatriate management in emerging markets: A competitive advantage perspective

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2017

Journal of International Management

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Chinese expatriate management in emerging markets: A competitive advantage perspective

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2017

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“…Desde la creación, codificación y decodificación del conocimiento. (Ado et al, 2017) La gestión de la cultura juega un papel clave en el aprendizaje, la transferencia de conocimiento y desarrollo del capital social. Es importante el manejo oportuno de las diferencias culturales en el desarrollo de estrategias y tácticas para obtener conocimiento y generar aprendizaje.…”

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La Cultura Organizacional, Factor Clave para la Transferencia de Conocimiento en los Centros de Investigación del Triángulo del Café de Colombia

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ResumenSe presentan los resultados de un estudio sobre la cultura organizacional como factor clave para la transferencia de conocimiento en los centros e institutos de investigación de los departamentos que forman la región triángulo del café de Colombia. Para el efecto se levantó la información de campo en 24 centros e institutos de investigación. Los hallazgos muestran que hay una valoración alta en cuanto a las patentes, el licenciamiento y el emprendimiento, producto de una cultura organizacional para la transferencia de conocimiento. Se concluye la necesidad de fortalecer la cultura organizacional como factor clave para desarrollar procesos de transferencia de conocimiento de alto nivel. Se recomienda un mayor apoyo de las universidades y de las empresas para aprovechar más lo que se viene haciendo en este campo de la AbstractThe results of a study about organizational culture as a key factor for the transfer of knowledge in the centers and institutes of investigation of the geographical departments forming the coffee triangle region of Colombia. For this purpose, field information was collected in 24 research centers and institutes. The findings show that there is a high valuation in terms of patents, licensing and entrepreneurship product of an organizational culture for the transfer of knowledge. The need to strengthen the organizational culture as a key factor to develop processes of high-level knowledge transfer is concluded. It is recommended to improve the support of the universities and the companies to take more advantage of what has been done in this field of transfer of knowledge.

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“…Hence, foreign partners carefully controlled external communication channels. This has often involved limited access to corporate information for African employees (who often occupy lower-level positons in the company; see also Ado, Su, and Wanjiru, 2016) and restrictions over information sharing including through interviews. These limitations often erected strong barriers to researchers who wanted to interview Africans involved in foreign partnerships.…”

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“…There are several reasons for this shortage of significant research publications on Africa in leading journals. Indeed, collecting data in Africa is challenging because sources of information are not easily accessible especially for researchers who conduct interviews and fieldwork in multiple countries, and from several interviewees with different backgrounds (Ado, 2015;Ado, Chrysostome & Su, 2016;Ado, Su & Wanjiru, 2016).…”

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International business research challenges in Africa

Ado

Wanjiru

2018

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the challenges researchers in/on Africa face when conducting research on the continent. It examines the reasons behind Africans’ relatively limited contribution to the business literature in the global sphere and why not culturally sensitive and nuanced research on Africa is spreading unchallenged. Design/methodology/approach The study combines knowledge creation and institutional theories to explain why African business scholars struggle in researching the continent and in contributing significantly to global knowledge creation. It also explores the debate about why Africa’s narratives in business seem dominated by not culturally sensitive and nuanced voices and approaches. It uses a participant observation method. Findings The study found that African scholars have not yet contributed significantly to global knowledge creation because of Africa’s institutional weaknesses and lack of government support for research, coupled with challenges at the interviewing, organizational and scholars’ levels. The study points to the specificities of the continent as well as to African interviewees’ particularities and the type of interactions with the researchers. The paper proposes new avenues to address those multilevel challenges and offers key lessons for future studies. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to systematically investigate the fundamental reasons behind business research challenges in/on Africa from knowledge creation and institutional standpoints. This study also contributes to the growing debate on Africans’ meager contribution to business literature as well as the controversy regarding culturally sensitive vs not culturally sensitive knowledge creation on Africa. Finally, it proposes avenues to understanding and overcoming those challenges.

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Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Africa-China JVs: Interplay between Informalities, Culture, and Social Capital

Cited by 48 publications

References 47 publications

Chinese expatriate management in emerging markets: A competitive advantage perspective

Chinese expatriate management in emerging markets: A competitive advantage perspective

La Cultura Organizacional, Factor Clave para la Transferencia de Conocimiento en los Centros de Investigación del Triángulo del Café de Colombia

International business research challenges in Africa

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