is of commitment to the entire corpor necessary, for they may need to accept sions or adjustments that are suboptimal at subsidiary level Gupta and Govindarajan the MNCs face the challenge 199). Consequently, between the of dealing with the tensions loyalties that individuals have to domestic goals and those they have to rate goals (Simon 1994) sibility of a In addition, MNCs face the pos culture-induced conflict between the process of developing knowledge and the process of sharing and implementing knowledge across national boundaries. As noted by Forsgren (1997), the greater the variation in the different subsidiaries' business contexts, the higher the prospects for creating new knowledge some- where within the MNC. But the greater the variation in the business contexts, the more difficult it will be to exploit this new knowledge on a more general basis" (p. 72). Several f im can lead to difficulties in sharing and plementing knowledge across borders. First, innovations developed by dispersed units might be highly culture-specific and hence of little value in other settings Second, sub- sidiaries might have little incentive to share their local knowledge with other units. A
And third, the difficulties of transferring knowledge units are exacerbated by across organizational syndrome (Allen 1977) the of the credibility of Ethnocentrism, skepticism unknown, and remote sources, suspicion of the organizational resistance to change can lead research units to reject proposals. Empirical are especially suggests that headquarters prone to reject proposals from international and Ridderstrale 1996. subsidiaries (Birkinshaw the structurational Moreover, according to perspective Giddens 1974), it is difficult to or achieve a creative transfer tacit knowledge bases in MNCs. synthesis of several knowledge of The underlying problem is that the members dispersed organizational units are likely to filter information and insights ac- cording to their culturally influenced systems of meaning and their different funds of know nizational membe ledge. For this reason, is of low tend to ignore information that
is of commitment to the entire corpor necessary, for they may need to accept sions or adjustments that are suboptimal at subsidiary level Gupta and Govindarajan the MNCs face the challenge 199). Consequently, between the of dealing with the tensions loyalties that individuals have to domestic goals and those they have to rate goals (Simon 1994) sibility of a In addition, MNCs face the pos culture-induced conflict between the process of developing knowledge and the process of sharing and implementing knowledge across national boundaries. As noted by Forsgren (1997), the greater the variation in the different subsidiaries' business contexts, the higher the prospects for creating new knowledge some- where within the MNC. But the greater the variation in the business contexts, the more difficult it will be to exploit this new knowledge on a more general basis" (p. 72). Several f im can lead to difficulties in sharing and plementing knowledge across borders. First, innovations developed by dispersed units might be highly culture-specific and hence of little value in other settings Second, sub- sidiaries might have little incentive to share their local knowledge with other units. A
And third, the difficulties of transferring knowledge units are exacerbated by across organizational syndrome (Allen 1977) the of the credibility of Ethnocentrism, skepticism unknown, and remote sources, suspicion of the organizational resistance to change can lead research units to reject proposals. Empirical are especially suggests that headquarters prone to reject proposals from international and Ridderstrale 1996. subsidiaries (Birkinshaw the structurational Moreover, according to perspective Giddens 1974), it is difficult to or achieve a creative transfer tacit knowledge bases in MNCs. synthesis of several knowledge of The underlying problem is that the members dispersed organizational units are likely to filter information and insights ac- cording to their culturally influenced systems of meaning and their different funds of know nizational membe ledge. For this reason, is of low tend to ignore information that
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