Subsidiary autonomy and knowledge transfer

Søberg, Peder Veng; Wæhrens, Brian Vejrum

doi:10.1108/jgoss-04-2018-0016

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“…While there have been some studies on firms' absorptive capacity in emerging economies (see, for example, Khan, Lew and Marinova 2019), most of these have focused on institutional level issues in the knowledge transfer process. In particular, the nature of the transferrable knowledge (tacit knowledge, such as marketing strategies), the effectiveness and efficiency of technological knowledge transfer, the recipient's learning intention, the knowledge source's attractiveness, and the quality relationship between the source and recipient organizations are issues that the literature has identified as being critical to the success of inter-and intra-organizational knowledge transfer, and require further exploration (Søberg andWaehrens 2019, Szulanski, Ringov andJensen 2016), especially in the context of emerging markets.…”

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Investigating the influence of absorptive capacity of recipients within cross-border transfer of knowledge: evidence from emerging markets

Mehreen

Rammal

Pereira

et al. 2021

IMR

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PurposeThis study aims to investigate whether the absorptive capacity, learning intent of the recipient, the attractiveness of the knowledge source and the relationship quality between the recipient and the source in high-technology sectors in emerging markets influences the nature of the intra-organizational knowledge being transferred.Design/methodology/approachA total of 180 completed survey responses from all cellular network providers operating in Pakistan were analyzed. This study uses multiple regression analysis to empirically tests the above relationships using data from the cellular network sector in Pakistan.FindingsThe findings highlight how the highly educated workforce and the motivation to learn has an impact on the effective cross-border sharing of knowledge, both technological and marketing knowledge.Originality/valueThis study is one of the few to test the factors that influence the effective and efficient transfer of knowledge from developed to emerging markets.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Investigating the influence of absorptive capacity of recipients within cross-border transfer of knowledge: evidence from emerging markets

Mehreen

Rammal

Pereira

et al. 2021

IMR

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“…Ciabuschi et al [2014], Meyer et al [2020]). Deep dual embeddedness may positively affect the subsidiary's influence/power within the multinational enterprise [Søberg, Waehrens, 2020]. Limited knowledge acquisition opportunities in low innovative host countries force subsidiaries to orient themselves toward internal relationships within the MNE network.…”

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“…And the other way round: subsidiaries with low levels of autonomy tend not to generate or disseminate innovations but are rather effective adopters of products and processes developed by the parent company since they have no authority or capability to resist [Ghoshal, Bartlett, 1988]. Lack of autonomy not only impedes their collaboration with local partners [Søberg, Waehrens, 2020] and makes them less responsive to local market needs but also lowers the local managers' intrinsic motivation to show initiative and motivation [Beugelsdijk, Jindra, 2018].…”

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Innovation Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries in Post-Transition Economy: Evidence from Poland

Gołębiowski¹,

Danik²,

Lewandowska³

et al. 2022

GNPJE

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The host country environment is an important source of knowledge for multinational enterprises (MNEs). The resources and competencies of MNEs' foreign subsidiaries (FS) as well as internal and external relationships are perceived to be critically important for their performance. This study intends to fill a cognitive gap in the understanding of factors influencing the innovation performance of FS established in Poland. FS innovation performance is explained by their resourcebased specific advantages, internal embeddedness in the corporate network, external embeddedness, and by interactions between their systemic power and autonomy. The analysis is based on a 2018 survey of 436 manufacturing FS in Poland. The ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model was applied, along with three quantile regression equations to provide additional layers of detail. We observed a positive influence of FS' own assets on innovation performance, especially if coupled with their deep internal embeddedness. The study also found a positive influence of internal embeddedness on innovation performance enhanced for high/ medium-high-tech firms if coinciding with strong resource-based specific advantages. Another finding was that the external embeddedness of FS had a positive effect on their innovation performance. Besides, the positive influence of systemic power on innovation performance was only revealed for high/medium-high-tech FS, while the subsidiaries' autonomy showed no significant influence on their innovation performance. StreszczenieŚrodowisko kraju goszczącego jest ważnym źródłem wiedzy dla przedsiębiorstw międzynarodowych. Zasoby i kompetencje filii zagranicznych (FZ) przedsiębiorstw międzynarodowych, a także ich relacje wewnętrzne i zewnętrzne są postrzegane jako krytyczne dla ich wyników ekonomicznych. Niniejsze opracowanie ma na celu wypełnienie luki poznawczej dotyczącej czynników wpływających na sprawność Istnieje od / Published since 1931

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“…The relationship between the autonomy and RKT is also worth touching upon (Palmi e et al, 2014;Søberg and Waehrens, 2020). The FS in the study are characterised by a low level of strategic and operational autonomy.…”

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The reverse transfer of knowledge in MNEs: the perspective of foreign subsidiaries in a post-transition country

Jankowska

Bartosik‐Purgat

Olejnik

2020

JIC

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PurposeThe aim of the paper is to identify the determinants of the marketing and managerial knowledge transfer from a foreign subsidiary located in a post-transition country to its headquarters established in a developed country.Design/methodology/approachThe authors combined the critical literature studies and empirical research, where the method of Computer-assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) was applied. The empirical data was gathered from 231 manufacturing foreign subsidiaries established in Poland (as one of the post-transition economy). To test the hypotheses logistic regression was applied.FindingsThe knowledge accumulated in the foreign subsidiary, the amount and level of novelty of innovation in the foreign subsidiary and its strategic autonomy is crucial for the occurrence of the reverse knowledge transfer. However, the more powerful the foreign subsidiary is, the less eager it is to transfer marketing and managerial knowledge to the headquarters.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is concentrated just on the manufacturing sector in the Polish economy. The results are based on the opinions and perception of managers, but they represent the corporate perspective (not their individual ones).Practical implicationsThe study provokes asking the question about the proper level of strategic autonomy of a foreign subsidiary. The implication related to the autonomy is much about the proper strategy for human resources management. The obtained results indicate that the intensity of innovation in a foreign subsidiary “translates” to the outflow of knowledge from a foreign subsidiary to its headquarters. Thus, encourages headquarters to let their subsidiaries innovate still monitoring their power.Social implicationsFSs are entities more or less embedded in the host markets, thus their strength and sustainable existence is important for their stakeholders, in particular – internal entities such as employees and external entities such as suppliers, and other cooperating organisations and institutions in the host market. The contribution of FSs to the innovation performance and knowledge pool of external partners is determined much by their absorptive capacity. Thus, the results obtained indirectly point to the importance of external agents ability to absorb and exploit the knowledge.Originality/valueThe originality of the paper concerns three issues. Firstly, the previous studies are mainly focused on either developed or emerging markets and as a result, the peculiarity of post-transition economies, like Poland has been neglected. Secondly, the determinants of reverse knowledge transfer are presented from the corporate perspective. Thirdly, authors focus on marketing and management knowledge distributed from a foreign subsidiary to its headquarter.

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Subsidiary autonomy and knowledge transfer

Cited by 7 publications

References 81 publications

Investigating the influence of absorptive capacity of recipients within cross-border transfer of knowledge: evidence from emerging markets

Investigating the influence of absorptive capacity of recipients within cross-border transfer of knowledge: evidence from emerging markets

Innovation Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries in Post-Transition Economy: Evidence from Poland

The reverse transfer of knowledge in MNEs: the perspective of foreign subsidiaries in a post-transition country

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