کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1000549 937009 2012 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Revisiting the external impact of MNCs: An empirical study of the mechanisms behind knowledge spillovers from MNC subsidiaries
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
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Revisiting the external impact of MNCs: An empirical study of the mechanisms behind knowledge spillovers from MNC subsidiaries
چکیده انگلیسی

The majority of studies of knowledge spillovers from the presence of multinational corporations (MNCs) have focused on whether or not, rather than how knowledge spillovers occur from MNC subsidiaries to local host country firms. Using survey data from 210 MNC subsidiaries in Sweden, a composite model is developed examining the impact of two different environmental conditions on the occurrence of knowledge spillovers arising from innovation transfer within MNCs. We distinguish between horizontal knowledge spillovers (i.e., to competitors) and vertical knowledge spillovers (i.e., to customers and suppliers), and emphasise the conceptually important distinction between the two. The former are largely unintentional by nature whereas the latter can be considered as intentional knowledge diffusion. The results show that competitive pressure in the recipient subsidiary's local environment gives rise to unintentional knowledge spillovers, whereas it is negatively related to intentional knowledge diffusion. The results also support the notion that the degree of embeddedness of in a subsidiary's business network in the host country is positively related to intentional knowledge diffusion. An important finding of the study is that there is a positive relationship between intentional knowledge diffusion and unintentional knowledge spillovers.

Research highlights
► We examine the underlying mechanisms behind knowledge spillovers from MNC subsidiaries.
► We focus on the effects of competitive pressure and network embeddedness on knowledge spillovers.
► We distinguish between intentional knowledge diffusion and unintentional knowledge spillovers.
► Business network embeddedness is a conduit for knowledge spillovers from subsidiaries to host country firms.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Business Review - Volume 21, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 167–179
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