A memoir and reflection: knowledge and an evolutionary theory of the multinational firm 10 years later

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kogut, B; Zander, U
• 署名单位: INSEAD Business School; Stockholm School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400066
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 505-515
• 关键词: knowledge; multinational corporation; evolutionary economics

摘要

The production of the 1993 article awarded the JIBS Decade Award was written during a time when ideas regarding knowledge and the international expansion of the firm confronted a hostile audience. The sources of these ideas were directly related in Winter's and Roger's prior work, but also to a broader literature on 'category errors' and technology transfer. The theory of the firm as a social community is a distinctly sociological theory and, though sharing many key ideas with the resource-based view that developed at the same time, is deeply opposed to engineering conceptions of firms as Lego-modular pieces that can be easily shifted, bought, and sold. We describe our individual biographies and the subsequent intellectual development of the concepts in our article.