Determinants of cross-national knowledge transfer and its effect on firm innovation

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Kotabe, Masaaki; Dunlap-Hinkler, Denise; Parente, Ronaldo; Mishra, Harsh A.
• 署名单位: Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Camden; Widener University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; SUNY New Paltz
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400261
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 259-282
• 关键词: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; Knowledge transfer; multinational firm; INNOVATION; International sourcing

摘要

This study examines the determinants of international knowledge flow. From a resource-based perspective, it evaluates the impact of cross-national knowledge transfer on firm innovative performance. Based on 56,027 US patents owned by 53 selected firms in the US-based pharmaceutical industry, the results suggest that innovative performance is a curvilinear function of the international knowledge content used by a firm to innovate. As hypothesized, it was found that at ( 1) low and moderate levels of international knowledge content, a firm's strategy to transfer international knowledge improves its innovative performance, and at ( 2) higher levels of international knowledge content, there are diminishing marginal returns to transferring knowledge from overseas.