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Collective Learning in Global Diffusion: Spreading Quality Standards in a Developing Country Cluster

Perez-Aleman, Paola·2011·Organization Science
DOI 10.1287/orsc.1090.0514
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This research analyzes how foreign organizational practices diffuse among indigenous enterprises in a developing economy. It highlights the collective knowledge-building process as central for understanding diffusion. Based on a longitudinal case study of a cluster of dairy producers in Nicaragua, a representative low-income country, it looks at cross-border diffusion in conditions that differ significantly from advanced economies. The current literature that highlights institutional pressures driving global spread of practices has limits for capturing a significant dynamic caused by increased integration of markets and production. By focusing on production organization and practices in a late developing context, this paper explains the intertwined process of spreading new standards and changing existing local practices by elaborating the relationship among building collective capabilities, learning, and standards diffusion. This study enriches current views on institutional effects and adds to the practice-based literature, as well as to the work on developing economy firms in organizational research.

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  • Efficiently managing MNE-led GVCs is no simple task, as they are less likely to be able to guide suppliers on how to implement these capabilities within GVCs that consist of arms-length suppliers.

    “However, efficiently managing MNE-led GVCs is no simple task, as they are less likely to be able to guide suppliers on how to implement these capabilities within GVCs that consist of arms-length suppliers”

    From Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research (2021) · cites this paper as Perez-Aleman, 2011

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Authors
Perez-Aleman, P.
Affiliations
McGill University (CA)
Corresponding author
Perez-Aleman, Paola
ORCID
Perez-Aleman, Paola
Venue
Organization Science
Publisher
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Published
2011-02
Volume
22
Issue
1
Pages
173-189
ISSN
  • 1047-7039 (ISSN-L)
  • 1526-5455
DOI
10.1287/orsc.1090.0514
OpenAlex
W2087215645
Cited by
120
References
133
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 2
FWCI
8.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Organization Science (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
  • 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
Keywords
collective learning, quality standards, indigenous enterprises, developing countries, dairy farmers, production clusters, institutional pressures, collective capabilities, organizational learning, market integration, Nicaragua

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