The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in Cross-border Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jandhyala, Srividya; Phene, Anupama
• 署名单位: ESSEC Business School; George Washington University
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.1177/0001839215590153
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 712-743
• 关键词: FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT; research-and-development; absorptive-capacity; technology-transfer; MARKET ECONOMIES; PROPERTY-RIGHTS; capitalism; VARIETIES; institutions; TRADE

摘要

Nonmarket organizations play a supportive role in knowledge transfer and innovation domestically, but national differences between them can create barriers to cross-border knowledge transfer. Internationally oriented nonmarket organizationsones that develop international ties and partnershipsmay generate commonalities among participants and promote a set of similar rules, expectations, and norms across different countries and thus may be effective in supporting cross-border knowledge transfer and innovation. We focus on one such kind of organization, the intergovernmental organization (IGO), as a country's connectedness to learning-oriented IGOs may have a positive influence on national innovation. Using an illustrative caselet on one IGO, the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, and an empirical analysis spanning 83 countries from 1996 to 2006, we find that the extent of connectedness to the learning-oriented IGO network enables national innovation. But countries differ in the extent to which they can leverage external knowledge for innovation because of the variation in relationships among local constituencies.