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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2024‒01‒29
three papers chosen by Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Ma, Xiao; Zhang, Yiran |
| Abstract: | Multinationals play a crucial role in international knowledge diffusion. Given the recent concern that multinationals are departing China, understanding the importance of multinationals for China's technology is also particularly policy-relevant. Using comprehensive patent data from China, we document: (1) multinational affiliates and their foreign parent firms comprise a significant portion of patents filed with China’s patent office; and (2) there are subsequent transfers and spillovers of these technologies to domestic firms. Guided by the empirical findings, we develop a quantitative framework of multinational activities featuring cross-country technology flows, transfers, and spillovers. Quantitatively, we find that without multinational production and knowledge spillovers, China's total technology capital would drop by 36%. Furthermore, due to the externalities of multinationals’ technology investments, subsidizing multinationals in China will be socially beneficial, and reduced knowledge transfers/spillovers largely amplify the negative effects of multinationals' departing China on both China's GDP and technology. |
| Keywords: | multinational activities; technology transfers; knowledge spillovers |
| JEL: | F23 O33 |
| Date: | 2023–12–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:119371&r=knm |
| By: | Yoshikawa, Katsuhiko; Wu, Chia-Huei; Lee, Hyun-Jung |
| Abstract: | Organisations are increasingly introducing online platforms to facilitate knowledge sharing among employees across organisational boundaries. Nonetheless, individuals do not always share knowledge on such platforms. This study aims to identify the factors that can motivate individuals to share knowledge on an online platform drawing on social exchange theory and the idea of generalised exchange, a form of social exchange identified on online knowledge-sharing platforms in previous studies. Specifically, we propose that individuals are more likely to share knowledge on online platforms when they have requests from an employee with whom they have worked in the same office in the past but do not currently work in the same office location (i.e. past-collocation history), have high levels of generalised exchange orientation, and need to use a wide variety of knowledge to complete their jobs (i.e. knowledge variety). Using a longitudinal dataset spanning 6 months among 100 users on an in-house online platform of a professional service firm, we find support for the three-way interaction hypothesis in a three-level analysis. We discuss implications on knowledge sharing on in-house online platforms. |
| Keywords: | knowledge sharing; online platforms; generalised social exchange; generalised exchange orientation |
| JEL: | J50 |
| Date: | 2022–12–16 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:117627&r=knm |
| By: | Maxime TERRIEUX |
| Abstract: | Following three decades of strong growth (7% on average) which enabled the country to eradicate extreme poverty and reach middle-income status, Vietnam continues to offer highly attractive prospects. Socio-political stability, a cautious policy mix, continually high economic growth, and the size of the domestic market of 100 million inhabitants are all major assets. Vietnam also benefits from a limited public debt ratio. Finally, the economy will continue to build on its strong integration into international trade, where recent upheavals (reconfiguration of value chains related to the Covid-19 crisis and the US-China trade war) have largely benefited Vietnam. |
| Keywords: | Vietnam |
| JEL: | E |
| Date: | 2024–01–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:avg:wpaper:en16154&r=knm |