A formal analysis of knowledge combination in multinational enterprises

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Buckley, P; Carter, MI
• 署名单位: University of Leeds
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400095
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 371-384
• 关键词: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; multinational enterprises; PROCESS MODEL

摘要

This paper outlines a model of process organisation for the combination of different types of knowledge from spatially separated sources in the multinational enterprise. The model envisages an initiator-entrepreneur as the motor of the process, and identifies regularities in the types of knowledge combination within the firm that provide additional value. Knowledge losses, decision losses and coordination losses are imperfections in the process, and result in barriers to the effective combination of knowledge. Strategies of combination are of three types - additive, sequential and complex - implying different types of control outcomes.