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01.12.2011 | Focused Issue: 50 Years of MIR

Knowledge and Strategy Creation in Multinational Companies

Social-Identity Frames and Temporary Tension in Knowledge Combination

verfasst von: Assoc. Prof. Patrick Regnér, Prof. Udo Zander

Erschienen in: Management International Review | Ausgabe 6/2011

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While a great deal of research on international business and management has fruitfully focused on knowledge transfer, this paper investigates knowledge creation; the process by which multinational companies (MNCs) continuously combine and recombine knowledge in order to generate a competitive advantage.
By integrating contemporary strategic management research into the field of international business, we have developed a new perspective on strategy and knowledge creation in MNCs, by elaborating on and extending the knowledge-based view and other views of MNC strategy making. We suggest that the agglomeration of a multitude of diverse social-identity frames, nested inside a corporate centripetal frame, creates an arena in which exploitable new knowledge can be created.
We propose that while a common corporate social-identity frame promotes knowledge transfer, the diversity of various subgroups’ social-identity frames, in combination, with interaction and temporary tension between them, advances knowledge creation. Although this partly involves a serendipitous process, it promotes a systemic advantage for MNCs compared to local firms, as regards knowledge exploration, (re-)combination, and integration. This competitive advantage is firmly rooted in hard-to-imitate complex social processes and may therefore be sustainable.

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Titel: Knowledge and Strategy Creation in Multinational Companies
Social-Identity Frames and Temporary Tension in Knowledge Combination
verfasst von: Assoc. Prof. Patrick Regnér
Prof. Udo Zander
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2011
Verlag: SP Gabler Verlag
Erschienen in: Management International Review / Ausgabe 6/2011
Print ISSN: 0938-8249
Elektronische ISSN: 1861-8901
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-011-0110-3

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