A memoir and reflection: knowledge and an evolutionary theory of the multinational firm 10 years later

B Kogut and U Zander
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B Kogut: INSEAD, Boulevard de Constance, France
U Zander: Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

Journal of International Business Studies, 2003, vol. 34, issue 6, 505-515

Abstract: The production of the 1993 article awarded the JIBS Decade Award was written during a time when ideas regarding knowledge and the international expansion of the firm confronted a hostile audience. The sources of these ideas were directly related in Winter's and Roger's prior work, but also to a broader literature on ‘category errors’ and technology transfer. The theory of the firm as a social community is a distinctly sociological theory and, though sharing many key ideas with the resource-based view that developed at the same time, is deeply opposed to engineering conceptions of firms as Lego-modular pieces that can be easily shifted, bought, and sold. We describe our individual biographies and the subsequent intellectual development of the concepts in our article. Journal of International Business Studies (2003) 34, 505–515. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400066

Date: 2003
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