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Management International Review
Erschienen in: Management International Review 6/2022

13.10.2022 | Research Article

Learning Through Firms’ Overseas Subsidiaries in the United States and China: Linking Host Country Environments into Technological Learning Outcome Types

verfasst von: Hyundo Choi, Luis Alfonso Dau, Elizabeth M. Moore

Erschienen in: Management International Review | Ausgabe 6/2022

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Abstract

How does technological learning through overseas subsidiaries differ across advanced economies, like the United States, and emerging economies, like China? We examine divergent host country environments (e.g. China and the United States) as critical contingencies that influence technological learning outcomes of Korean firms using patent data. Our findings suggest that the higher the number of overseas subsidiaries established in China leads to an increase in the usage of existing host country technological knowledge, while the higher the number of overseas subsidiaries established in the United States increases new technological knowledge co-production with host country researchers. Our research yields incipient findings that offer critical insights for firms seeking specific technological learning outcomes from host countries.
Vorheriger Artikel Contextualizing AMO Explanations of Knowledge Sharing in MNEs: The Role of Organizational and National Culture
Nächster Artikel Reverse Efficiency Spillovers from Host Country Banks to Foreign Banks: Evidence from Emerging Market Bank Subsidiaries in Developed Markets

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We collected additional data on China-Korea co-inventions of 44 listed firms in the communication equipment industry for robustness check. We found that there is no single China-Korea co-patent case in this extended dataset. Thus, we conclude that opportunities for co-producing new technological knowledge are rare in China. This lack of opportunity may be the reason why many prior studies chose the electronics industry as a case study because the electronics industry has relatively active innovation activities and patents can explain the firms’ innovation activities well. Thus, we believe that there are very few opportunities for new technological knowledge co-production with China and the addition of data from new industries does not enhance our research and have decided to focus on the electronics industry.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Learning Through Firms’ Overseas Subsidiaries in the United States and China: Linking Host Country Environments into Technological Learning Outcome Types
verfasst von
Hyundo Choi
Luis Alfonso Dau
Elizabeth M. Moore
Publikationsdatum
13.10.2022
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Management International Review / Ausgabe 6/2022
Print ISSN: 0938-8249
Elektronische ISSN: 1861-8901
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-022-00488-9

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