کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
985073 934415 2011 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Competence-creating overlaps and subsidiary technological evolution in the multinational corporation
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
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Competence-creating overlaps and subsidiary technological evolution in the multinational corporation
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper explores overlapping competence-creating activities within the boundaries of the multinational corporation by investigating how foreign greenfield subsidiaries’ technological evolution is affected by the addition of an acquired unit in the same location. Drawing upon the complete U.S. patenting activity by subsidiaries of 21 Swedish multinationals over the 1893–1990 period, we use repeated event history analysis to test a set of hypotheses concerned with the effect of this competence-creating overlap. Findings include an initial retrogressive effect on greenfield subsidiaries’ technological evolution as a result of competence-creating overlaps, which, over time diminishes to become positive after more than a decade of overlap exposure. Thus, we add to the theory of subsidiary evolution by expanding the view of the archetypal subsidiary that has so far been constrained to evolve without operational overlaps.

Research highlights
► This paper explores competence-creating overlaps in the multinational corporation.
► Competence-creating overlaps occur frequently within the multinational corporation.
► Overlaps has an initial, but diminishing retrogressive effect on technological evolution.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Research Policy - Volume 40, Issue 5, June 2011, Pages 673–686
نویسندگان
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