The Influence of Multiple Knowledge Networks on Innovation in Foreign Operations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Berry, Heather
• 署名单位: George Washington University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2018.1203
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 855-872
• 关键词: innovation; Embeddedness; radical; incremental; MNCs; parent; host-country; and third-country MNC knowledge networks

摘要

Although extant literature has long argued that firm embeddedness within knowledge networks increases innovation, we know much less about how interactions across multiple knowledge networks jointly influence learning and innovation outcomes within firms. This paper contributes to our understanding of global innovation in multinational corporations (MNCs) by exploring how competing tensions across parent, host-country, and third-country knowledge networks in terms of knowledge domain diversity and dominance, organizational bias, and knowledge relevance perceptions influence innovation outcomes. Empirical results from a comprehensive panel of U.S. MNCs reveal different preferred combinations of high and low embeddedness across parent, host-country, and third-country knowledge networks for incremental versus radical innovation outcomes, reflecting how competing tensions across knowledge networks can limit or enhance knowledge search for diverse knowledge and influence innovation outcomes in the foreign operations of MNCs.