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Investigating dynamic capabilities, agility and knowledge management within EMNEs-longitudinal evidence from Europe

Vijay Pereira (Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong - Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Kamel Mellahi (Faculty of Business, Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK)
Yama Temouri (University of Wollongong - Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
Swetketu Patnaik (Anglia Ruskin University Ashcroft International Business School, Cambridge, UK)
Mohammad Roohanifar (Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, Manchester, UK)

Journal of Knowledge Management

ISSN: 1367-3270

Article publication date: 3 December 2018

Issue publication date: 28 November 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to analyse the impact of dynamic capability (DC) of emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) on their firm technological performance by teasing out the concepts of agility and knowledge management (KM) through DC.

Design/methodology/approach

Evidence from this study is contextualised on EMNEs that operate in the UK, Germany and France. This study examines the investment in intangible assets which EMNEs use to develop their DC over the period 2005-2016 and how this leads to increased firm technological performance.

Findings

Results show that higher investments in DC allow EMNEs to be more agile and gain competencies through KM and thereby sustain competitiveness in the three leading European countries. This research also identifies which EMNE groupings show greater technological performance and how such EMNE groupings are able to translate dynamic capabilities into greater technological performance compared to others over time. In summary, the role of DC during of the global financial crisis was also examined, where they are required to be more agile.

Originality/value

This paper sheds light on a novel way and motivation of successful EMNEs in using developed host countries as a location for generating DC through agility and KM.

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Citation

Pereira, V., Mellahi, K., Temouri, Y., Patnaik, S. and Roohanifar, M. (2019), "Investigating dynamic capabilities, agility and knowledge management within EMNEs-longitudinal evidence from Europe", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 23 No. 9, pp. 1708-1728. https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-06-2018-0391

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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