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| Research on the Knowledge Governance Mechanisms in Cross-border M&As: from the Perspective of Ambidextrous Innovation |
| Zhao Zhonghua |
| (Urban and Environmental Research Institute，Henan Academy of Social Sciences, Zhengzhou 450003, China) |
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Abstract With more opportunities brought by economic globalization, enterprises in developing countries can allocate resources globally through cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to establish their own competitive advantages. In these actions, knowledge governance from the acquirer side plays an important role in motivating the knowledge employees of the target side, facilitating them to stay voluntarily and serve the innovation strategy of Chinese enterprises, but the existing research fails to explain how to government knowledge especially how to choice the mode of knowledge governance. Based on the research framework of knowledge governance, four representative successful cross-border M & A cases are selected, then this paper focuses on the process of ambidextrous innovation and knowledge governance in these four cases. It is found that the ambidextrous innovation mode of enterprises influences the choice of knowledge governance mode. In the process of M & A integration, enterprises have formed three ambidextrous innovation modes: equal emphasis on exploitation and exploration innovation and focusing on one of exploitation and exploration innovation while consider the other, and three corresponding governance modes: hybrid mode, authoritarian mode and cooperative mode. The influence path is: ambidextrous innovation determines the goal of knowledge governance, and the goal of governance determines the combination of formal and informal governance mechanisms. The influencing mechanism is that the formal and informal governance mechanisms are more suitable for the characteristics of exploitation and exploration innovation respectively, therefore, when enterprises choose equal emphasizing on exploitation and exploration innovation or focusing on one of them while considering the other, they must choose the corresponding combination of formal and informal knowledge governance mechanisms.
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Received: 22 June 2020
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