2003 DECADE AWARD WINNING ARTICLE
Knowledge of the firm and the evolutionary
theory of the multinational corporation
B Kogut1 and U Zander2
1Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
USA; 2Institute of International Business (IIB),
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Correspondence:
Bruce Kogut, INSEAD,
Boulevard de Constance,
77305 Fontainebleau Cedex,
France.
Tel: +33 1607242 05
Fax: +33 1607455 00/01
E-mail: Bruce.KOGUT@insead.edu
Abstract
Firms are social communities that specialize in the creation and internal transfer
of knowledge. The multinational corporation arises not out of the failure of
markets for the buying and selling of knowledge, but out of its superior
efficiency as an organizational vehicle by which to transfer this knowledge
across borders. We test the claim that firms specialize in the internal transfer of
tacit knowledge by empirically examining the decision to transfer the capability
to manufacture new products to wholly owned......

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Title: Knowledge Of The Firm And The Evolutionary Theory Of The Multinational Corporation
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