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Barakat, L., Pedersen, T., Amaral-Baptista, M., Cretoiu, S., Bento, P., Rosa, A....Serrasqueiro, R. M. (2019). International reverse knowledge transfer, absorptive capacity and the role of multinationality. EURAM 2019 Annual Conference.

L. Barakat et al.,  "International reverse knowledge transfer, absorptive capacity and the role of multinationality", in EURAM 2019 Annu. Conf., Lisboa, 2019

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	author = "Barakat, L. and Pedersen, T. and Amaral-Baptista, M. and Cretoiu, S. and Bento, P. and Rosa, A. and Serrasqueiro, R. M.",
	title = "International reverse knowledge transfer, absorptive capacity and the role of multinationality",
	year = "2019",
	howpublished = "Digital"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - International reverse knowledge transfer, absorptive capacity and the role of multinationality
T2  - EURAM 2019 Annual Conference
AU  - Barakat, L.
AU  - Pedersen, T.
AU  - Amaral-Baptista, M.
AU  - Cretoiu, S.
AU  - Bento, P.
AU  - Rosa, A.
AU  - Serrasqueiro, R. M.
PY  - 2019
CY  - Lisboa
AB  - This study investigates the effect of multinationality and the variety of knowledge management mechanisms on headquarters ́ absorptive capacity in the cross-cultural reverse knowledge transfer context. We test our hypothesis on a sample of 106 Brazilian and Portuguese multinationals. Our findings show that firms that use a wide variety of knowledge transfer mechanisms globally are more capable of absorbing knowledge from their subsidiaries. Interestingly, multinationality has a positive direct effect on absorptive capacity but a negative moderating effect on the relationship between knowledge management mechanisms and the ability to absorb knowledge, which suggests that highly internationalized firms that use a wide variety of mechanisms may disperse coordination efforts, thus hindering absorptive capacity.
ER  -