MNCs and regional innovation systems differ widely in their knowledge generation and dissemination processes. We propose these differences provide systematic challenges for MNC units tapping into locally vested skills, combining their findings with existing knowledge and disseminating this...

The purpose of this paper is to show why to build ‘learning organisations’ must be a central element of knowledge management. The paper argues that the wide use of information technology has a contradictory impact on knowledge management. On the one hand it extends the potential for...

Eine Akquisition ist unter den Prämissen des Resource-based View eine der wenigen Möglichkeiten, strategische immaterielle Vermögenswerte (z.B. Kernkompetenzen, Kompetenzen oder strategisch relevantes Wissen) zu erwerben. Nach dem Vollzug der Akquisition ist für die zielgerichtete Gestaltung...

This qualitative field study investigated cross-site knowledge sharing in a small sample of multinational corporations in three different MNC business contexts (global, multidomestic, transnational). The results disclose heterogeneous “worlds” of MNC knowledge sharing, ultimately raising the...