HSIAO-WEN HOGary CookJennifer Johns2022-05-312022-05-312013Ho, Mia H.-W. (2013). Reconceptualising cross-border knowledge acquisition: an empirical investigation into antecedents. In Cook, G. and Johns, J. (Eds.), New Global Developments and the Changing Geography of International Business: Strategy, Performance and Institutional Change, Academy of International Business UK and Ireland Chapter Conference Book Series, Volume 20 (pp. 136-154), UK: Palgrave MacMillan978-1-349-44717-6978-1-137-27750-3https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/612476The growing importance of cross-border knowledge acquisition is recognition that competitive advantage can no longer be solely ascribed to national idiosyncrasies, but rather depends on resources and capabilities exchanged or acquired from international networks (Mathews, 2003; Squire et al., 2009). As the global competition continues to intensify, the acquisition of new organizational knowledge from external sources has become a managerial priority in that it provides the basis for organizational renewal and sustainable competitive advantage (Inkpen, 1998). Research on knowledge acquisition has been burgeoning since the 1990s; yet exploration of such issues within international contexts is a relatively recent phenomenon (Bresman et al., 1999). Indeed, international scholars have acknowledged that the role of management knowledge is a crucial and under-researched phenomenon of globalization (Buckley and Ghauri, 2004).enbook part10.1057/9781137277503_9