Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Enterprises

It has been a long time since the studies about knowledge transfer were mainly focused on the transfer from headquarter to subsidiaries. But, with the development of world economic globalization, more and more multinational companies enhance their competitiveness from the integration of international resources by reverse knowledge transfer (RKT), especially from emerging market subsidiaries. This paper is a brief review on relevant literatures, particularly focuses on the channels, effects and determinants of reverse knowledge transfer from emerging market subsidiary to its parent company in developed countries. As a result of this analysis, and in order to highlight the importance of further research on the RKT from emerging countries, this study puts forwards several directions for the future research, for instance the empirical studies about RKT in emerging market and in service industry are highly need.