Knowledge worker mobility and knowledge management in MNEs: A bibliometric analysis and research agenda

被引:28
作者
Ferreira, Joao J. [1 ,2 ]
Fernandes, Cristina, I [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Guo, Ying [4 ]
Rammal, Hussain G. [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Beira Interior, Dept Management & Econ, Covilha, Portugal
[2] Univ Beira Interior, NECE Res Unit Business Sci, Covilha, Portugal
[3] Loughborough Univ, Ctr Corp Entrepreneurship & Innovat, Loughborough, Leics, England
[4] Xian Jiaotong Liverpool Univ, Int Business Sch Suzhou, 111 Renai Rd, Xian 215123, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
[5] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide Business Sch, Adelaide, SA, Australia
关键词
Knowledge worker; Knowledge management; MNEs; Employee mobility; Bibliometrics; CROSS-BORDER KNOWLEDGE; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; MULTINATIONAL-CORPORATIONS; CULTURAL DISTANCE; BRAIN-DRAIN; PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION; FIRM; ADAPTATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.12.056
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
The Resource-Based View suggests that for an organization to have a sustainable competitive advantage, the firm should have valuable, rare, inimitable resources and have the ability to exploit them. The Knowledge-Based View treats knowledge as an organizational resource, which resides in both the explicit and tacit knowledge held by organizations and their people. For MNEs, the tacit knowledge is transferred by the movement of knowledge workers, who take on a boundary-spanning role. However, this trend is in decline. With increasing barriers (formal and informal) to the movement of professionals, increased digitization, and Industry 4.0, the physical movement of professionals may not be required. This literature review maps the evolution of knowledge transfer by MNEs and the knowledge workers' role. We classify the studies into six clusters related to mobility, the use of expatriates and knowledge transfer, knowledge spillover, transfer practice, relational learning, and knowledge management and post-acquisition integration. The article identifies gaps in the extant literature and sets an agenda for future research.
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页码:464 / 475
页数:12
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