Increasing Absorptive Capacity to Improve Internal and External Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Companies: A Multiple Case Study Approach

Bela-Gergely Racz () and Anca Borza ()
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Bela-Gergely Racz: Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Anca Borza: Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

Management and Economics Review, 2016, vol. 1, issue 2, 120-135

Abstract: This study investigates how the absorptive capacity could be increased to improve internal and external knowledge transfer in subsidiaries of multinational companies. We look at the way in which the literature on absorptive capacity has evolved, and how it links the internal and external knowledge transfer. Based on 3 case studies conducted at Romanian subsidiaries of multinational companies, we find some patterns, which could explain how the successful knowledge flows should be managed within the multinational company and outside of it, in the supply chain network.

Keywords: Absorptive capacity; Disseminative capacity; Internal knowledge transfer; External knowledge transfer; Manufacturing network; Multinational company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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