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Absorptive capacity, value creation and new service development in multinational enterprises : the role of knowledge flows between customers, subsidiaries and headquarters |
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| Author: | Leposky, Tiina1; Arslan, Ahmad2; Gölgeci, Ismail3; |
| Organizations: |
1School of Marketing & Communication, University of Vaasa, Finland 2Department of Marketing, Management & International Business, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Finland 3School of Business & Sciences, Department of Business Development & Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark
4Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
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| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.4 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022041328530 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Edward Elgar Publishing,
2022
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| Publish Date: | 2022-07-18 |
| Description: |
AbstractAbsorptive capacity has been widely used in management and international business (IB) studies to explain the way organisations use external information to their benefit in commercial exchanges. This chapter attempts to extend the concept by applying it to the relationships between customer-subsidiary-headquarter (HQ) of multinational enterprises (MNEs), where the subsidiary acts as the focal unit for knowledge flows. We further use absorptive capacity concept to explain the knowledge inflows, in terms of new service development and knowledge outflows, leading to value creation. Based on in-depth theoretical discussions, we present propositions addressing the organisational and social dynamics in the four phases of absorptive capacity, from acquisition and assimilation, to transformation and exploitation. see all
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| Series: |
Research handbooks in business and management |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78897-611-4 |
| ISBN Print: | 978-1-78897-610-7 |
| Pages: | 210 - 225 |
| DOI: | 10.4337/9781788976114.00019 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.4337/9781788976114.00019 |
| Host publication: |
Research handbook on knowledge transfer and international business |
| Host publication editor: |
Khan, Zaheer Nair, Smitha R. Lew, Yong K. |
| Type of Publication: |
A3 Book chapter |
| Field of Science: |
512 Business and management |
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| Copyright information: |
© Editors and Contributors Severally 2022. This is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in Research Handbook on Knowledge Transfer and International Business, edited by Z. Khan, S. R. Nair, & Y. K. Lew, published in 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976114. The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private use only. |