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| Review on the Parent Enterprises’ Factors in the Reverse Knowledge Transfer in MNEs |
| DU Lihong,WU Xianming |
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Abstract The investing motivation of multinational enterprises has emphasized on strategic resources seeking, especially the knowledge-seeking motivation. Therefore, the MNEs would prefer the reverse knowledge transfer to meeting their knowledge resource needs from the host countries. The researches on reverse knowledge transfer have won more and more attention. So this paper has made a review on the main articles discussing reverse knowledge transfer, and has summarized the strategic factors and the capability factors of parent enterprises which have made a vital and direct effect on the reverse knowledge transfer. Specifically, the strategic factors contain the international investing strategy of parent companies and the controlling degree to the subsidiaries in the host country, while the capability factors refer to the absorptive capability and the institute environment. Finally, based on the review of the recent and main articles, we have also made forecast on the future researching trend in the theme of reverse knowledge transfer.
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Received: 16 January 2014
Published: 15 May 2014
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Corresponding Authors:
DU Lihong
E-mail: dulihongwhu@hotmail.com
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