Regional and Global Technological Knowledge Search Strategies and the Innovative Performance of Large Multinational Corporations

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 637-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Zhang ◽  
John A. Cantwell
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
Knowledge Search

Innovation type and external knowledge search strategies in KIBS: evidence from Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Doloreux ◽  
Ekaterina Turkina ◽  
Ari Van Assche
Keyword(s):  
Search Strategies ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Search ◽  
Innovation Type

Technological knowledge access and transfer of multinational corporations from emerging economies: a comparison study

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test ◽  
The Us ◽  
Knowledge Access

Purpose This study aims to analyze the subsequent investment success of EMNCs after their strategic asset-seeking foreign direct investments (FDIs), while internationalization trajectories of multinational corporations from emerging economies (EMNCs) have been extensively studied, Post-internationalization investment success of EMNCs is defined as extensive technological knowledge access and transfer for knowledge combination. This paper focuses on EMNC explicit knowledge access and transfer. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes US patents granted between 2000 and 2014 to leading innovation-oriented EMNCs from China and India as well as to their key competitors from mature industrialized countries (MMNCs). Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test is used to compare the explicit technological knowledge access and transfer patterns of EMNCs and MMNCs. With MMNCs as the benchmark, the comparison allows to imply the patterns and extent of technological knowledge access and transfer of EMNCs. Findings While subsidiary reverse knowledge transfer is largely missing, EMNCs adopt a parent-centric approach in which the parent directly accesses and transfers explicit knowledge from the external environment of host locations. In doing so, EMNCs at least partially achieve the knowledge access and transfer goals of strategic asset-seeking FDIs. Originality/value This study contributes to an in-depth understanding of EMNCs by empirically testing key predictions in extant EMNC literature, namely, the strategic asset-seeking in host locations and the systematic integration of accessed knowledge and resources with home country activities. This study also pioneers the use of the US patent and citation data to empirically study EMNCs.

Managing Interorganizational Innovation Projects: Mitigating the Negative Effects of Equivocality Through Knowledge Search Strategies

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 691-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Erik Eriksson ◽  
Pankaj C. Patel ◽  
David Rönnberg Sjödin ◽  
Johan Frishammar ◽  
Vinit Parida
Keyword(s):  
Search Strategies ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Innovation Projects ◽  
Knowledge Search

External Knowledge Search Strategies in China's Technology Ventures: The Role of Managerial Interpretations and Ties

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjiang Liu ◽  
Lu Chen ◽  
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Managerial Ties ◽  
Threat Rigidity ◽  
Knowledge Search ◽  
Technology Ventures

AbstractDrawing on the threat-rigidity hypothesis, we examine how managerial opportunity and threat interpretations of external environments affect a technology venture's choice of external knowledge search strategies in an emerging market. Results from a sample of 141 technology ventures in China reveal that opportunity interpretation directly and positively influences both the breadth and depth of external search, whereas threat interpretation directly and negatively influences only external search depth. Furthermore, managerial ties strengthen the positive relationship between opportunity interpretation and external search breadth but weaken the positive relationship on external search depth. Managerial ties weaken the negative relationship between threat interpretation and external search breadth but strengthen the negative relationship on external search depth. Implications for both research and practice are offered.

The relationship between knowledge search strategies and absorptive capacity: A deeper look

Technovation ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 48-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Ferreras-Méndez ◽  
Anabel Fernández-Mesa ◽  
Joaquín Alegre
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Knowledge Search ◽  
The Relationship

Exploring Unchartered Territory: Knowledge Search Strategies in the Origination of Outlier Patents

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 14571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Joy King ◽  
Melissa Schilling ◽  
Barak S. Aharonson
Keyword(s):  
Search Strategies ◽  
Knowledge Search

scholarly journals Consequences of open innovation: effects on skill-driven recruitment

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Bello-Pintado ◽  
Carlos Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Knowledge Search ◽  
Human Side

Purpose This paper aims to focus on the human side of inbound open innovation by analyzing the effects that the adoption of different knowledge search strategies for innovation has on new recruitment needs. Design/methodology/approach Building on several theoretical perspectives, the study proposes three hypotheses regarding the relationship between openness and the need to recruit people with high technical and social skills. Using a pooled panel data from the Uruguayan Innovation Survey between 2004 and 2012, the authors identify open strategies followed by the firm. Findings The estimation results using pooled panel data confirm that the adoption of inbound open search strategies for innovation demands the recruitment of new employees with higher technical and social skills. Technical skills are more likely to be demanded than social skills. The effects observed are moderated by the intensity in the use of knowledge and information sources (KISs). Originality/value This paper revisits the analysis of specific knowledge search strategies at the firm level. In doing so, the study looks for the effects of specific strategies combining different knowledge sources and considers different levels of use of external KISs, from narrow to wide. While other studies have analyzed the human factor as a determinant of the success of openness for innovation, this paper re-examines the direction of this relationship. Finally, the study contributes to the evidence from a Latin American country, where these topics have received less attention.

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