Investigating dynamic capabilities, agility and knowledge management within EMNEs-longitudinal evidence from Europe
Journal of Knowledge Management
ISSN: 1367-3270
Article publication date: 3 December 2018
Issue publication date: 28 November 2019
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.
Keywords
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
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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