Managing multiple knowledge transfers between headquarters and subsidiaries, among also within each of these units is crucial for multinational corporations’ (MNCs) survival. Therefore, this article aims to uncover the main factors influencing internal in MNCs—including intra-unit units, namely, conventional, horizontal, reverse transfers. To achieve goal, a systematic literature review (SLR) w...

This paper explores the diffusion of competitive Internet technology products in the context of competition between local and multinational corporations as well as how the diffusive interactions between technologies affect their dominance in electronic markets. Drawing on existing theories of innovation diffusion, and competitive dynamics, the authors adopted a new diffusion model that incorpor...

Firms face substantial uncertainty when doing business in new markets. We propose that multinational firms use “cross-market learning” to resolve such uncertainties. develop a model of firm-level expectations formation with noisy signals from multiple markets and derive predictions on market entries over the firm’s life cycle. Using novel dataset Japanese corporations includes sales each affili...