TY - JOUR
T1 - Knowledge development through co-opetition : a case study of a Japanese foreign subsidiary and its local suppliers
AU - HONG, Fok Loi, Jacky
AU - SNELL, Robin Stanley
PY - 2015/10
Y1 - 2015/10
N2 - Based on qualitative interviews with members of a focal firm located in China and five of its local supplier firms, and on non-participant observations of focal firm-supplier transactions, we identify the cooperative and competitive routines that were managed and orchestrated by the focal firm and contributed to local knowledge development through Yin-Yang dynamics. Harnessed together in Yin-Yang dynamics, these two contradictory yet complementary and mutually transformative routines drove and supported core suppliers' active contributions to new knowledge development while challenging them to remain close to the focal firm.
AB - Based on qualitative interviews with members of a focal firm located in China and five of its local supplier firms, and on non-participant observations of focal firm-supplier transactions, we identify the cooperative and competitive routines that were managed and orchestrated by the focal firm and contributed to local knowledge development through Yin-Yang dynamics. Harnessed together in Yin-Yang dynamics, these two contradictory yet complementary and mutually transformative routines drove and supported core suppliers' active contributions to new knowledge development while challenging them to remain close to the focal firm.
KW - China
KW - Co-opetition
KW - Japanese MNCs
KW - Knowledge creation
KW - Routines
KW - Yin-Yang
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/6801
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84941730502&doi=10.1016%2fj.jwb.2015.03.003&partnerID=40&md5=2c5cfad7e685dd67ec93e7a4b240cf12
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2015.03.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2015.03.003
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 50
SP - 769
EP - 780
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 4
ER -