The Private and Common Benefits of Spanning Structural Holes within the MNE Network

Lisa Katarina Gärber, Torben Pedersen, Shalini Rogbeer

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    Abstract

    It is well established that spanning structural holes creates private benefits through innovation. However, the extent to which other network members profit from spanning structural holes remains unclear. This research considers how subunits that span structural holes within the MNE network reap private benefits in terms of innovation, as well as contribute to the common network benefits through knowledge outflows. Acknowledging that a direct relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation exists, we use a 3SLS model to elucidate the various individual and simultaneous links among brokerage, innovation and knowledge outflows. In this way, we decompose some of the ways in which brokerage simultaneously affects knowledge outflows and
    innovation to map out the private and common benefits of brokering within the MNE network. We find that brokerage is indeed positively related to innovation but negatively to knowledge outflows, given also that, as expected, innovation is positively related to outflows. The reason that existing literature has ignored the knowledge outflow patterns of the broker, and as such its value-added to the network, may be that the total effect of knowledge outflow is indeed positive, although the direct effect of brokerage on knowledge outflow is
    negative.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TitelProceedings of the 54rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business
    RedaktørerSusan Feinberg, Tunga Kiyak
    UdgivelsesstedEast Lansing, MI
    ForlagAcademy of International Business
    Publikationsdato2012
    Sider228-229
    StatusUdgivet - 2012
    BegivenhedAIB 2012 Annual Meeting: Rethinking the Roles of Business, Government and NGOs in the Global Economy - George Washington University and University of Maryland, Washington, USA
    Varighed: 30 jun. 20123 jul. 2012
    Konferencens nummer: 54
    http://aib.msu.edu/events/2012/

    Konference

    KonferenceAIB 2012 Annual Meeting
    Nummer54
    LokationGeorge Washington University and University of Maryland
    Land/OmrådeUSA
    ByWashington
    Periode30/06/201203/07/2012
    Internetadresse
    NavnAcademy of International Business. Annual Meeting. Proceedings
    Vol/bind54
    ISSN2078-4430

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