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Exploring the Paradox of Competence-creating Subsidiaries: Balancing Bandwidth and Dispersion in MNEs
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Metadata
- Authors
- Narula, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Reading (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Narula, Rajneesh
- ORCID
- Narula, Rajneesh
- Venue
- Long Range Planning
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 4-15
- ISSN
- 0024-6301 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1971714333
- Cited by
- 223
- References
- 80
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 34 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 34.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Long Range Planning (publishedVersion)
- UNU Collections (United Nations University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › International Business and FDI
- Social Sciences › Communication › International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Keywords
- multinational corporations, firm-specific advantages, knowledge flows, knowledge integration, coordination, market failure, subsidiary networks
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