Internal embeddedness, geographic distance, and global knowledge sourcing by overseas subsidiaries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Asakawa, Kazuhiro; Park, YeonJin; Song, Jaeyong; Kim, Sang-Ji
• 署名单位: Keio University; Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute - Korea (ETRI); Seoul National University (SNU); Samsung
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-017-0112-x
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 743-752
• 关键词: global knowledge sourcing; internal vertical embeddedness; GEOGRAPHIC DISTANCE; overseas R&D subsidiaries

摘要

We investigate determinants of global knowledge sourcing of overseas R&D subsidiaries, shedding light on vertical cross-border embeddedness within firms. Drawing on the paradox of embeddedness perspective, which assumes that embeddedness may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer, we examine the extent to which different types of internal vertical embeddedness administrative versus knowledge - facilitate global knowledge sourcing. We find that vertical administrative embeddedness inhibits global knowledge sourcing, while vertical knowledge embeddedness promotes it. We also find differing moderating effects of geographic distance between headquarters and its subsidiaries on the association between vertical embeddedness and global knowledge sourcing.