Author ORCID Identifier

Bass - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9857-1551

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-5-2017

Publication Title

International Business Review

Volume

27

Issue

1

First Page

66

Last Page

77

Abstract

Internationalization knowledge (IK) is important to successfully enter and develop competitive strategies abroad. Yet, how IK is advanced and improved across the multinational enterprise (MNE), and how this contributes to the MNE’s strategic renewal is less understood. This analysis is based on an in-depth case study of Microsoft International to explore how IK is advanced, improved, and integrated across the enterprise. Our findings suggest that IK plays a critical role in fostering strategic renewal of an MNE. More specifically, sensing, seizing, and transforming capabilities jointly provide the necessary basis that enable IK to facilitate strategic renewal. We contribute to the literature by (1) explicating three categories of IK and their hierarchical relationship; (2) reveal how three distinct capabilities required by MNEs capture and integrate the three categories of IK across the enterprise; and, (3) offering that strategic renewal is triggered by routines based on the development and integration of IK.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Elsevier in International Business Review on December 5, 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.05.006

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