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... Absorptive capacity Knowledge adaptation Knowledge transfer Learning Russian companies Russian business reality Western companies Companies Russia Western Europe For a long time Russia has been perceived merely as a country with huge oil and other mineral resources. Only in recent years, have...

... transfer between Russian and Western firms. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Absorptive capacity Technical knowledge Managerial knowledge Knowledge transfer Russian companies Western companies Russia Western Europe Companies Knowledge management This paper gives a valuable...

... Absorptive capacity Knowledge transfer Russian companies Western companies Russian language Soviet Union In their timely Viewpoint article authors Michailova and Jormanainen argue that Western firms have generally done little “to develop their AC by better understanding the specific...

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...‐over‐us‐style. There would be no rectifying this later, and we would turn into a colony (Solzhenitsyn, 1991 , p. 37). Absorptive capacity Knowledge transfer Late transition period Russian companies Western companies Knowledge management International business © Emerald Group...