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on challenges and best practices of participant recruitment, effort coordination, learning and transfer of training
to real-life settings, data collection, performance monitoring and evaluation, student feedback and course and
instructor evaluations, and use of large-scale student collaboration projects for teaching, research, and interinstitutional
and professional networking. Of 30+ instructors who have participated in the project over the past
two years, about 20 will be attending the session, although only 11 will be formally presenting on behalf of the
group. (For more information, please contact: Vas Taras, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA:
v_taras@uncg.edu)
Session: 3.1.11 - Interactive
Track: 7 - Emerging Economies
Developing Technological Capabilities in Emerging Markets
Presented On: July 3, 2012 - 09:00-10:15
Chair: Robert Pearce, University of Reading
Search Behavior and Knowledge Creation of Firms in Emerging Markets
Yuzhe Miao, Kyung Hee University
Jaeyong Song, Seoul National University
This study investigates how search behaviors influence knowledge creation of firms in emerging markets by
classifying search behaviors of an organization into vertical search (time span) and horizontal search (field
span). We suggest that that in order to innovate successfully, firms in emerging markets should adopt
idiosyncratic search strategies different from those of established large firms in advanced countries. Based on
an empirical test of 204 Chinese firms, we find that given high recombination potential of new knowledge, and
insufficient organizational experience with past knowledge, firms in emerging economies should focus on
emerging and new knowledge rather than mature, old knowledge in order to improve innovation performance.
In addition, due to their underdeveloped absorptive capacity, firms in emerging markets should avoid searching
in diverse knowledge fields, as established large firms in advanced countries are encouraged to do, in order to
innovate successfully. This study provides new theoretical insights into and practical implications about
knowledge creation for firms in emerging markets, by investigating two distinct search behaviors. (For more
information, please contact: Yuzhe Miao, Kyung Hee University, Korea, South: yzmiao@gmail.com)
National Innovation System and Globalization: The Implication for Technological Catching-up
Feng Zhang, St. Mary's University
Robert Pearce, University of Reading
This article reviews early literature about national innovation system (NIS) that was introduced to analyze
postwar Japanese technology policy and economic growth. We initiated an application of NIS concept on China
in the context of globalization. We adopted the broad definition of NIS to include foreign-owned firms operating
in China as a part of China's NIS, and speculated that foreign-owned firms may not only draw upon China's NIS
but also significantly contribute to the system. Some implications of early literature on the further development
of China's NIS are also discussed. (For more information, please contact: Feng Zhang, St. Mary's University,
USA: fzhang@stmarytx.edu)
Balancing External and Internal Knowledge in Host Country Environment: Evolution of R&D focused MNE
Subsidiaries in India
Amit Karna, EBS Business School
Petra Sonderegger, Independent Researcher
Florian Täube, EBS Business School
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