Arbeitspapier
Knowledge sourcing: legitimacy deficits for MNC subsidiaries?
Multinational corporations (MNC) search increasingly for lead market knowledge and technological expertise around the globe. We investigate whether their subsidiaries gain access to these valuable sources of host country knowledge to the same degree as domestic rivals. We develop a theoretical framework for "why" and "how" a lack of embeddedness and legitimacy (liability of foreignness) may translate into additional obstacles for foreign subsidiaries. We test these hypotheses empirically using a broad dataset of more than 1,000 innovative firms in Germany. We find that MNCs can compete on an equal footing with host country competitors when it comes to generating impulses for innovations from universities. They are significantly challenged by liabilities of foreignness, though, when host country customers are involved. The disadvantages are especially pronounced when the host country industry is at the technological forefront. We suggest that the disadvantages arising from liability of foreignness in the host country are particularly relevant when promising lead customers have to be identified and their tacit and often unarticulated impulses have to be transferred, understood and prioritized.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2009,09
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Multinational Firms; International Business
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- Thema
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Liability of foreignness
knowledge spillover
globalization
Auslandsniederlassung
Multinationales Unternehmen
Deutsch
Wissenstransfer
Legitimität
Welt
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Schmidt, Tobias
Sofka, Wolfgang
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Deutsche Bundesbank
- (wo)
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Frankfurt a. M.
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Schmidt, Tobias
- Sofka, Wolfgang
- Deutsche Bundesbank
Entstanden
- 2009
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