مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد مدیریت دانش در بازار

During the past three decades, many emerging markets around the world have undertaken economic reforms of varying magnitude with objectives that include a move away from inward-oriented import substitution policies toward outward-oriented export-led growth, improved access to foreign technology and capital in order to make domestic firms competitive in the global economy, and enhanced capabilities in value-added manufacturing industries to enable a broader shift of the economy away from traditional commodity goods (Hoskisson, Eden, Lau, & Wright, 2000; Wright, Filatotchev,Hoskisson,&Peng, 2005).While theseeconomic reforms have yielded country-level benefits reflected in positive trade balances and economic growth, there is growing concern whether liberalization and global integration has the expected positive influence on the innovation capabilities and competitiveness of emerging economy firms (Chittoor, Aulakh, & Ray, 2015).

Recent research suggests that in place of the projection model of global expansion where firms expand into international markets to exploit their home-grown knowledge advantages, there is an imperative for firms to treat the world as a learning laboratory. Unlike traditional multinationals, new multinationals identify emerging knowledge from around the world, leverage it into innovations, and turn these into value. Companies are transitioning fromthe vertically integrated “do-it-all-yourself” approach toward a new model of open innovation in which they import ideas from without and let their own innovations enter the wider marketplace. This implies an important ‘sensing’ role for research and development (R&D), andthe need to prospect foreignmarkets for knowledge, take the knowledge home, convert it into innovation capabilities, and develop new products. Participating in global resources and product markets therefore serves as a critical learning conduit (Hitt, Li, & Worthington, 2005; Luo & Tung, 2007; Mathews, 2006).

Research has focused on ways to understand how multinational corporations (MNCs) from developed nations enter and compete in various emerging markets. Furthermore, scholars are contributing to a growing body of research that concentrates on how firms from emerging markets internationalize to compete in the global arena. There is unanimity among researchers that competing within emerging markets and internationalizing out of these markets require strategic choices that are markedly different from those prescribed in traditional models of MNC behavior (Aulakh & Kotabe, 2008; Contractor, Kumar, & Kundu, 2007; Hoskisson, Wright, Filatochev, & Peng, 2013; Luo & Tung, 2007; Meyer, Estrin, Bhaumik, & Peng, 2009). But how firms learn and manage knowledge as they compete in and out of emerging markets is yet to gain serious scrutiny in the contemporary international business research (Lahiri, 2011; Peng, Bhagat, & Chang, 2010). The aim of this JWB special issue is to foster scholarship that develops new theory and promotes novel empirical and practitioner insights on learning and knowledge management (LKM) strategies in the context of emerging markets.