Bresman, Henrik; Birkinshaw, Julian; Nobel, Robert - In: Journal of International Business Studies 30 (1999) 3, pp. 439-462
This paper reports on a multi-method study of knowledge transfer in international acquisitions. Using questionnaire … elapsed since acquisition, while the transfer of patents is associated with the articulability of the knowledge, the size of …-acquisition period is characterized by imposed one-way transfers of knowledge from the acquirer to the acquired, but over time this gives …