This paper investigates the cor-porate parenting advantage, the extent to which corporate parents improve the performance of theirsubsidiaries. …Read More
The Corporate Parenting Effect, Revisited
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The External Knowledge Sourcing Process in Multinational Corporations
We study the processes through which multinational corporations (MNCs) identify and make use of external sources of knowledge. Based on a seven year longitudinal study of one MNC’s overseas scouting unit, we show how a simple one-directional “channelling” process gradually gave way to three higher value-added processes, labelled “translating”, “matchmaking” and “transforming.”…Read More
Selective attention and the initiation of the global knowledge-sourcing process in multinational corporations
Multinational corporations (MNCs) frequently use their foreign subsidiaries to identify new opportunities to access external knowledge. This article builds on the attention-based view to examine how selective attention – the focus on certain issues or answers at the exclusion of others – works in the global knowledge-sourcing process in MNCs.…Read More