Transferring Tacit Know-How: Do Opportunism Safeguards Matter for Firm Boundary Decisions?

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dc.contributor.authorEapen, Alex
dc.contributor.authorKrishnan, Rekha
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-08T02:49:32Z
dc.date.issued2019-07
dc.date.updated2020-03-08T07:21:37Z
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, scholars have demonstrated that capability theories of firm boundaries are fundamentally intertwined with contractual arguments. A productive use of capability arguments, therefore, is when they are joined with contractual ones in an integrated theory of the firm. However, contractual and capability scholars have traditionally held incommensurable views on the relevance of opportunism safeguards for a theory of the firm. Sponsors of the contractual view treat opportunism safeguards as fundamental, whereas several scholars in the knowledge-based strand of the capabilities camp consider it redundant. Moreover, in several recent integrative efforts, opportunism and safeguarding against it feature as linchpin theoretical ideas. To fully integrate contractual and capability theories, therefore, there is a need to resolve this point of incommensurability. We revisit a specific problem in the international strategy literature where the opportunism debate has been significant - the transfer of tacit know-how by multinational firms - and employ moderator-effect hypotheses to test two alternative mechanisms for why tacit know-how is transferred internally. We test whether tacit know-how is transferred internally to safeguard against opportunism or, alternatively, to avail the coordination benefits of common routines within firms. Our results indicate the former and not the latter, and thereby support a cornerstone notion in recent efforts toward an integrated theory of the firm.en_AU
dc.format.extent21 pagesen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1047-7039en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/205927
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)en_AU
dc.rights© 2019 INFORMSen_AU
dc.sourceOrganization Scienceen_AU
dc.subjecttransaction costs, organizational economics, knowledge-based view, technology transfer, opportunismen_AU
dc.titleTransferring Tacit Know-How: Do Opportunism Safeguards Matter for Firm Boundary Decisions?en_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-06-03
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage734en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage715en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationEapen, Alexander, College of Business and Economics, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKrishnan, Rekha, Simon Fraser Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailalex.eapen@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidEapen, Alexander, u5270451en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor159999 - Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4868915xPUB167en_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB4762
local.identifier.citationvolume30en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1287/orsc.2018.1236en_AU
local.identifier.essn1526-5455en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4868915en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.informs.org/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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