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Pathways of Relevance: Exploring Inflows of Knowledge into Subunits of Multinational Corporations
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To understand what determines knowledge flows into organizational subunits, the study reported here examines the relevance of the knowledge to the operations performed at the receiving subunit. This study analyzes inflows of knowledge from peers and supervising units into subunits of multinational corporations. It examines factors that affect the relevance of extra-unit knowledge to receiving subunits and explores empirically how these factors affect knowledge flows. The results show that knowledge travels along established ties from large knowledge bases into unspecialized, codified, locally responsive knowledge bases. The results are consistent with the view that relevance provides pathways through which new knowledge connects to prior knowledge.
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- Authors
- Schulz, M.
- Venue
- Organization Science
- Published
- 2003-08
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 440-459
- ISSN
- 1047-7039 (ISSN-L)
- 1526-5455
- OpenAlex
- W2121915257
- Cited by
- 258
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 25.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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