Tapping the power of local knowledge: A local-global interactive perspective
通过对四家跨国公司在中国的深度案例研究，提出一个互动模型，揭示跨国公司如何通过全球知识渗透、地方-全球知识融合与整合来克服地方知识劣势，对国际商务和战略研究者有参考价值。
Existing theories of international business and strategy do not fully explain how local knowledge disadvantage faced by foreign investors can be mitigated. We conducted an in-depth qualitative study into four MNCs to investigate the micro-processes of how they generated value from their dispersed sources of local knowledge in China. The results suggest an interactive model: that MNCs employed management processes encompassing three strategically interconnected efforts—global knowledge penetration, local-global knowledge blending, and local-global knowledge integration. The model highlights the interplay between global and local knowledge and challenges extant research that solely focuses on the transfer of either home-based or local knowledge.