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- catalog abstract "To gain a more complete understanding of how multinational companies leverage technological competencies, this paper explores the relationships among four fundamental determinants of intra-firm competence transfers that have hitherto been analyzed only separately--formal organization structure, informal linkages, geographical distance, and relatedness of competencies across subsidiaries. Using a data set consisting of 4,840 dyads between new product development teams and subsidiaries that were potential targets for competence transfers in a high-technology multinational company, we find support for the importance of the four determinants but also that they interact in surprising ways to explain different patterns of transfers. Results revealed that teams not only steered away from spatially distant subsidiaries that had related competencies but also preferred to approach people they knew rather than people who knew the technologies well. They also showed that informal and formal organizational mechanisms operated differently in steering teams to subsidiaries that provided competencies. These findings indicate that studying one of the determinants separately can yield biased results, as their net effect may change when the moderating effects of the other determinants are considered, and that more integrative studies of technological competence transfers are needed.".
- catalog contributor b12963092.
- catalog contributor b12963093.
- catalog contributor b12963094.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "To gain a more complete understanding of how multinational companies leverage technological competencies, this paper explores the relationships among four fundamental determinants of intra-firm competence transfers that have hitherto been analyzed only separately--formal organization structure, informal linkages, geographical distance, and relatedness of competencies across subsidiaries. Using a data set consisting of 4,840 dyads between new product development teams and subsidiaries that were potential targets for competence transfers in a high-technology multinational company, we find support for the importance of the four determinants but also that they interact in surprising ways to explain different patterns of transfers. Results revealed that teams not only steered away from spatially distant subsidiaries that had related competencies but also preferred to approach people they knew rather than people who knew the technologies well. They also showed that informal and formal organizational mechanisms operated differently in steering teams to subsidiaries that provided competencies. These findings indicate that studying one of the determinants separately can yield biased results, as their net effect may change when the moderating effects of the other determinants are considered, and that more integrative studies of technological competence transfers are needed.".
- catalog extent "55 p. :".
- catalog isPartOf "Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) ; 03-073.".
- catalog isPartOf "Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School ; 03-073".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[Boston] : Division of Research, Harvard Business School,".
- catalog title "How do multinational companies leverage technological competencies? : moving from single to interdependent explanations / Morten T. Hansen, Bjørn Løvås.".
- catalog type "text".