کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5107198 1377571 2016 16 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Relevant knowledge and recipient ownership: Chinese MNCS' knowledge transfer in Africa
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Relevant knowledge and recipient ownership: Chinese MNCS' knowledge transfer in Africa
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper examines emerging market multinational corporations' (EMNCs') knowledge transfer (KT) in emerging markets using case studies of Chinese MNCs (CMNCs) in Africa. CMNCs are found to transfer “relevant knowledge”, existing knowledge reconfigured so that recipients can apply it more effectively with less effort in the new context. Relevance is ensured through recipients exerting ownership of the KT process, influencing what knowledge is transferred and how it is transferred. We summarise EMNCs' KT process in a “relevant knowledge recipient ownership model”. The model contributes to KT theory by refining and empirically testing a new type of knowledge - relevant knowledge - and a new transfer model - recipient ownership - associated with EMNCs. It leads to a “relevance-based view” in which EMNCs' competitive advantage in emerging markets is significantly enhanced by knowledge relevance rather than superiority. This contributes to a better understanding of EMNCs' competitiveness in emerging markets as created from distinct characteristics of their relevant knowledge (applicability, assimilability, affordability) and recipient-driven transfer (selection, scrutiny and synthesis).
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of World Business - Volume 51, Issue 5, September 2016, Pages 713-728
نویسندگان
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