...Hamidreza Shahbaznezhad; Mona Rashidirad; Isaac Vaghefi Purpose While numerous studies have studied knowledge transfer (KT) and endeavored to address factors influencing KT, little effort has been made to integrate the findings of prior studies. This paper aims to classify the literature on KT...

... that are relevant to expansion on a foreign country market. Findings – The propositions show how foreign subsidiaries' value-adding activities are aligned with two contingencies: the corporate strategy manifested by the product/market knowledge transferred from the parent firm that enable local expansion...

... to both quantity and strategy. Thus, we focus our attention on knowledge determinants and growth. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Economic growth Business enterprise Communication technologies Knowledge transfer Business formation The primary question addressed...