Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures
IJV research highlights the importance of learning in international joint ventures (IJVs) but has not indicated how to achieve it. We combine organizational learning and internationalization process research within a microfoundations framework to understand learning in IJVs. We study a Samsung-Tesco...
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| author | Park, Jeong-Yang Harris, Simon |
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| description | IJV research highlights the importance of learning in international joint ventures (IJVs) but has not indicated how to achieve it. We combine organizational learning and internationalization process research within a microfoundations framework to understand learning in IJVs. We study a Samsung-Tesco IJV that successfully learned retail practice from one partner and applied it in a South Korean context known by the other. The managers used many learning processes, not just experiential learning emphasized in international business research, and used many more knowledge sources than assumed in prior research, including the IJV partners’ other subsidiaries. To build absorptive capacity, IJVs need appropriate microfoundations at individual, process and structural levels, and coherent interlinkages between them, especially by having IJV managers’ with extensive experience and orientation to learn who are given structural and process autonomy to invest in learning. |
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| spelling | nottingham-462112020-05-04T20:14:24Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46211/ Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures Park, Jeong-Yang Harris, Simon IJV research highlights the importance of learning in international joint ventures (IJVs) but has not indicated how to achieve it. We combine organizational learning and internationalization process research within a microfoundations framework to understand learning in IJVs. We study a Samsung-Tesco IJV that successfully learned retail practice from one partner and applied it in a South Korean context known by the other. The managers used many learning processes, not just experiential learning emphasized in international business research, and used many more knowledge sources than assumed in prior research, including the IJV partners’ other subsidiaries. To build absorptive capacity, IJVs need appropriate microfoundations at individual, process and structural levels, and coherent interlinkages between them, especially by having IJV managers’ with extensive experience and orientation to learn who are given structural and process autonomy to invest in learning. Elsevier 2014-06 Article PeerReviewed Park, Jeong-Yang and Harris, Simon (2014) Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures. International Business Review, 23 (3). pp. 490-503. ISSN 0962-9262 Absorptive capacity International joint venture Learning Microfoundations http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593113001212 doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2013.08.011 doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2013.08.011 |
| spellingShingle | Absorptive capacity International joint venture Learning Microfoundations Park, Jeong-Yang Harris, Simon Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures |
| title | Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures |
| title_full | Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures |
| title_fullStr | Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures |
| title_short | Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures |
| title_sort | microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures |
| topic | Absorptive capacity International joint venture Learning Microfoundations |
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