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The role of expatriates in the multinational corporations: Making a behavioral context and knowledge transfer

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15530264
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Business administration
Research InstitutionHacinohe University

Principal Investigator

KANETSUNA Motoyuki  Hachinohe University, Business Faculty, Associate Professor, ビジネス学部, 助教授 (50298064)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KANETSUNA Motoyuki  Hachinohe University, Business Faculty, Associate Professor (50298064)
Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
KeywordsMultinational Corporation / Information Stickiness / Social Community / Knowledge Transfer Capacity / Behavioral Context / Socialization / Thailand / Japanese Multinational Corporation / 海外派遣 / 人材育成 / 組織設計 / グローバル / コミュニケーション・ネットワーク / ローカル化 / 部門横断的関係
Research Abstract

In the theory of multinational corporations, many scholars have been discussing about why economic activities should be organized within a firm and why foreign direct investment should occur. Internalization theory explains this issue from the failure of markets. Another point of views explains this issue from "the organizational advantage". In this alternative views to the theory of the firm, firms are regarded as social communities for internal transfer of knowledge. This paper develops the latter theory of the firm by considering internal mechanisms of the firm that are able to transfer knowledge more efficiently than markets. The author focuses on socialization that is a typical internal mechanism of the firm. Socialization is the internal mechanism that control individual activities in the firm by making a behavioral context based on trust and commitment. Since this behavioral context encourages voluntary activities of individuals, recipients of knowledge in the firm may be able to acquire enough absorptive capacity that is necessary for knowledge transfer. As a result, the firm may transfer knowledge, in particular tacit knowledge, more efficiently.
Based on a field-study of five Japanese multinational corporations in Thailand, the author examines how the behavioral context is created and how the behavioral context influences the efficiency of knowledge transfer. The result implies that the behavioral context is created through long term teaching processes between sources of knowledge and recipients of knowledge. In particular these processes are important for recipients to acquire problem solving capacity in manufacturing processes that is characteristic of tacit knowledge. As various troubles are taking place in manufacturing processes, recipients need long term experience of problem solving to acquire this capacity.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2005 Other

All Journal Article (2 results) Publications (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 社会的共同体としての組織とグローバル知識移転能力2005

    • Author(s)
      金綱基志
    • Journal Title

      日本経営学会誌 第13号

      Pages: 112-125

    • NAID

      110004852871

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Firms as social communities and its capacity of Transfer knowledge across borders.2005

    • Author(s)
      Motoyuki Kanetsuna
    • Journal Title

      Jurrnal of Business Management 13

      Pages: 112-125

    • NAID

      110004852871

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 金綱基志: "多国籍企業の組織設計と海外派遣政策の転換"経営学論集. 73集. 190-191 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2003-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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