Exploring the paradox of competence‐creating subsidiaries : balancing bandwidth and dispersion in MNEs

By Rajneesh Narula. 2014

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research (2021, background): “…has been from the developed world to the developing world, the mainstream IB literature recognizes the potential for MNEs to learn from subsidiaries located in developing and emerging countries (Berry, 2014; Birkinshaw & Hood, 1998; Cantwell & Mudambi, 2005; d’Agostino et al., 2013; Narula, 2014).”
Internalization advantage and subsidiary performance: The role of business group affiliation and host country characteristics (2019, unknown): “We can develop a more nuanced understanding of internalization advantages by shifting the focus from the MNC to its foreign subsidiaries, which occupy a dominant role in the modern MNC (Narula, 2014; Narula & Verbeke, 2015; Rugman, Verbeke, & Yuan, 2011; Cantwell & Mudambi, 2005).”
Back to basics: Behavioral theory and internationalization (2020, background): “…& Bell, 1997; Gulati, Lavie, & Singh, 2009), with scholars explaining that firms would benefit from acquiring market and institutional knowledge in order to enhance their firm-specific advantages and effectively engage in international partnerships (Collinson & Narula, 2014; Narula, 2012, 2014).”
The structural reshaping of globalization: Implications for strategic sectors, profiting from innovation, and the multinational enterprise (2019, background): “Greater dispersion of MNE innovation-related activities will place pressure on the available bandwidth and absorptive capacity, and may result in decreased innovation quality (Narula, 2014; Singh, 2008).”
Applying and advancing internalization theory: The multinational enterprise in the twenty-first century (2019, background): “There is concomitantly a more explicit realization that substantial costs arise from managing increasingly complex organizations and combining external and internal embeddedness in dispersed subsidiaries (Narula, 2014).”
Rapid internationalization and long-term performance: The knowledge link (2017, background): “The first one is related to the knowledge that multinationals aim to deploy in foreign markets, while the second one is related to the organizational assets and routines that multinationals require to effectively deploy that technological knowledge across borders (Narula, 2014, 2015).”
The nature of innovation in global value chains (2021, background): “…of a firm’s operations due to interdependencies of innovation activities, leading to limitations on managerial bandwidth (Ambos & Ambos, 2009; Narula, 2014; Scalera, Perri, & Hannigan, 2018) and increased challenges with firms’ internal or external boundaries (Schotter, Mudambi, Doz, &…”