The Uncertain Relevance of Newness: Organizational Learning and Knowledge Flows

Schulz, Martín

doi:10.5465/3069409

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“…In contrast, when the technological knowledge of the firm exceeds the requirements of its strategic implementation or the level of major competitors, exploring new technological knowledge becomes financially and operationally inefficient (March, 1991). Therefore, the firm should focus on exploiting and refining its existing knowledge for certain and immediate returns (Schulz, 2001;Zack, 1999). Likewise, customer or competitor orientations may reflect similar (or different) patterns when they drive knowledge exploitation/exploration.…”

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How does strategic orientation matter in Chinese firms?

Zhou

2007

Asia Pacific J Manage

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How does strategic orientation matter in Chinese firms?

Zhou

2007

Asia Pacific J Manage

106

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“…Schulz (2001) also proposes that HKFs primarily occur between related and adjacent subsidiaries, implying that the control that HQ has over the HKF is constrained. Based on the above arguments, we can claim that HQ would have a higher level of mandate on the VKF than on the HKF.…”

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Determinants of MNC’s Knowledge Inflows to Subsidiaries: A Perspective on Internalization Advantages

Tseng

2015

Manag Int Rev

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Previous studies have contributed to understand the determinants of MNC's internal knowledge flows. However, the critical role played by internalization-specific factors in determining the knowledge flows has attracted relatively little attention. The present study aims to fill this gap by investigating the relationship between an MNC's motivation to acquire internalization advantages (MIA) and the level of knowledge inflows to its foreign subsidiaries; including both the vertical knowledge inflows (VKF) from the headquarters and the horizontal knowledge inflows (HKF) from other subsidiaries. Furthermore, it is asserted that the relationship between the MIA of the MNC and the knowledge inflows is contingent on two specific subsidiary characteristics, namely the subsidiary importance and the subsidiary local experience. An analysis of 100 Taiwanese MNCs' foreign subsidiaries demonstrates that the MIA is indeed an important determinant of knowledge inflows to subsidiaries. Moreover, the effects of MIA on the VKF and HKF vary with the subsidiary-specific characteristics. This study supports the validity of internalization factors on explaining the internal knowledge flows of the MNC and the necessity of incorporating the subsidiary-specific characteristics to comprehend the complex phenomenon of knowledge flows.

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“…To extend this line of research, this study instead seeks to examine the contingency value of social capital (Burt 1997 ties and knowledge search. The base-line expectation for our contingency explanations, consistent with the basic tenets of social capital theory, is that when working in the foreign subsidiary, executives as boundary spanners (Schulz 2001) cultivate and build social contacts outside their subsidiaries for a purpose. The external ties serve as useful sources that can add to executives' knowledge stock and constitute the informal advice network from which executives seek information to resolve encountered problems (Nebus 2006).…”

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Are Social Ties Always Valuable to Knowledge Search? Contextualizing Knowledge Search by Foreign Subsidiary Executives in an Emerging Economy

Zhao

2015

Manag Int Rev

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The extant research of cross-border knowledge acquisition by multinational enterprises often assumes away the role of local contexts within which knowledge acquisition occurs. To extend this line of research, this study contextualizes the knowledge search by foreign subsidiary executives to examine the contingency value of social ties. The results based on the multilevel analyses of both micro (433 dyad ties) and macro effects of the regional knowledge environment (26 provinces) provide support for the hypotheses that, though close social ties facilitated knowledge search as predicted by social capital theory, the utility value of social ties for knowledge search tends to be attenuated in the regions with high level of social capital and FDI density.

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The Uncertain Relevance of Newness: Organizational Learning and Knowledge Flows

Cited by 90 publications

References 46 publications

How does strategic orientation matter in Chinese firms?

How does strategic orientation matter in Chinese firms?

Determinants of MNC’s Knowledge Inflows to Subsidiaries: A Perspective on Internalization Advantages

Are Social Ties Always Valuable to Knowledge Search? Contextualizing Knowledge Search by Foreign Subsidiary Executives in an Emerging Economy

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