Foreign tacit knowledge and a capabilities perspective on MNEs’ product innovativeness: Examining source-recipient knowledge absorption platforms
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Highlights：
• Theoretically, this study moves beyond internal absorptive capacity into a capabilities perspective of MNEs’ product innovativeness. By using resource-based theory and absorptive capacity to frame source-recipient knowledge absorption platforms as dynamic capabilities, we build a model that enables the continued interaction between the market knowledge (source) gained from foreign subsidiaries and the focal (recipient) MNEs’ product innovativeness.
• Foreign tacit knowledge has a U-shaped relationship with MNEs’ product innovativeness, such that it has (a) a negative linear effect and (b) a positive quadratic effect on MNEs’ product innovativeness.
• For managerial implications, we focus on three organizational practices in terms of entrepreneurial competence, relationship harmony, and information communication technology (ICT) competence as potential enhancements to convert foreign tacit knowledge into MNEs’ product innovativeness.
摘要
•Theoretically, this study moves beyond internal absorptive capacity into a capabilities perspective of MNEs’ product innovativeness. By using resource-based theory and absorptive capacity to frame source-recipient knowledge absorption platforms as dynamic capabilities, we build a model that enables the continued interaction between the market knowledge (source) gained from foreign subsidiaries and the focal (recipient) MNEs’ product innovativeness.•Foreign tacit knowledge has a U-shaped relationship with MNEs’ product innovativeness, such that it has (a) a negative linear effect and (b) a positive quadratic effect on MNEs’ product innovativeness.•For managerial implications, we focus on three organizational practices in terms of entrepreneurial competence, relationship harmony, and information communication technology (ICT) competence as potential enhancements to convert foreign tacit knowledge into MNEs’ product innovativeness.
论文关键词：Absorptive capacity,Dynamic capabilities,Entrepreneurial competence,ICT competence,Knowledge tacitness,Multinational subsidiary management,Product innovativeness,Trust
论文评审过程：Received 24 March 2017, Revised 11 October 2018, Accepted 12 October 2018, Available online 1 November 2018, Version of Record 1 November 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.10.008
