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Benefiting from location: Knowledge seeking
Juan Alcacer,Wilbur Chung +1 more
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This article is published in Global Strategy Journal.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Location.read more
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Can traditional organizations be digitally transformed by themselves? The moderating role of absorptive capacity and strategic interdependence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a conceptual framework, which approached the digital transformation of traditional organizations as a coordinated sequence of specific relationships and provided insights into traditional organizations' levels of absorptive capacity (high vs. low) as well as into the levels of interdependence between them and their partners.
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The Mutual Impact of Global Strategy and Organizational Learning: Current Themes and Future Directions
TL;DR: A review of the intersection of the fields of global strategy and organizational learning can be found in this article, where the authors present two recommendations regarding how the interaction between the two fields can be enhanced.
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Many roads lead to Rome: Implications of geographic scope as a source of isolating mechanisms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the sources of and relationships among the causal factors leading to the creation of isolating mechanisms or barriers to imitation in the semiconductor industry, and provided managerial implications that firms with different sets of resources and capabilities can implement different types of isolation strategies to sustain their competitive advantage.
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Geographic scope, isolating mechanisms, and value appropriation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the value appropriation aspect of geographic scope of knowledge acquisition and show that isolating mechanisms created via geographic scope can help firms prevent competitors from accessing their innovative knowledge and, by doing so, help firms capture a larger proportion of economic returns from innovation, thus helping them enjoy better financial performance.
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Processes of building cross-border knowledge pipelines
Harald Bathelt,Pengfei Li +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a four-stage model of building cross-border knowledge pipelines, involving site selection, cross-base knowledge facilitation, local embedding, and crossborder knowledge generation.
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Overcoming the Liability of Foreignness
TL;DR: In this article, the authors addressed the question of whether firms in a competitive, globally integrated environment face a "liability of foreignness" and to what extent either importing home-country organizational capabilities or copying the practices of successful local firms can help them overcome this liability.
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Distance still matters. The hard reality of global expansion.
TL;DR: The CAGE framework as mentioned in this paper considers four attributes: cultural distance (religious beliefs, race, social norms, and language that are different for the target country and the country of the company considering expansion); administrative or political distance (colony-colonizer links, common currency, and trade arrangements); geographic distance (the physical distance between the two countries, the size of the target countries, access to waterways and the ocean, internal topography, and transportation and communications infrastructures); and economic distance (disparities in the two country's wealth or consumer income and variations
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Knowledge Seeking and Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
Wilbur Chung,Juan Alcacer +1 more
TL;DR: Not only firms from technically lagging nations, but also some firms fromTechnically leading nations are attracted to R--D intensive states, which suggests that beyond catching up, firms use knowledge-seeking investments also to source technical diversity.
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Physical attraction and the geography of knowledge sourcing in multinational enterprises
John Cantwell,Ram Mudambi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop the concept of physical attraction exerted by the dominant firms in a local industry on other actors that increases the ease of local knowledge search for insiders with stronger connections to others.
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