TY - JOUR
T1 - Internal embeddedness, geographic distance, and global knowledge sourcing by overseas subsidiaries
AU - Asakawa, Kazuhiro
AU - Park, Yeonjin
AU - Song, Jaeyong
AU - Kim, Sang Ji
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF- 2016S1A5A2A01026323), the Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry, IAA (RIETI) of Japan, as well as Grants-in-Aids for Scientific Research (B) (No. 15H03384) by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Academy of International Business.
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - We investigate determinants of global knowledge sourcing of overseas R&D subsidiaries, shedding light on vertical cross-border embeddedness within firms. Drawing on the paradox of embeddedness perspective, which assumes that embeddedness may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer, we examine the extent to which different types of internal vertical embeddedness - administrative versus knowledge - facilitate global knowledge sourcing. We find that vertical administrative embeddedness inhibits global knowledge sourcing, while vertical knowledge embeddedness promotes it. We also find differing moderating effects of geographic distance between headquarters and its subsidiaries on the association between vertical embeddedness and global knowledge sourcing.
AB - We investigate determinants of global knowledge sourcing of overseas R&D subsidiaries, shedding light on vertical cross-border embeddedness within firms. Drawing on the paradox of embeddedness perspective, which assumes that embeddedness may facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer, we examine the extent to which different types of internal vertical embeddedness - administrative versus knowledge - facilitate global knowledge sourcing. We find that vertical administrative embeddedness inhibits global knowledge sourcing, while vertical knowledge embeddedness promotes it. We also find differing moderating effects of geographic distance between headquarters and its subsidiaries on the association between vertical embeddedness and global knowledge sourcing.
KW - geographic distance
KW - global knowledge sourcing
KW - internal vertical embeddedness
KW - overseas R&D subsidiaries
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U2 - 10.1057/s41267-017-0112-x
DO - 10.1057/s41267-017-0112-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031717634
SN - 0047-2506
VL - 49
SP - 684
EP - 705
JO - Journal of International Business Studies
JF - Journal of International Business Studies
IS - 6
ER -