Abstract
Understanding how firms protect their knowledge from leakage is becoming increasingly important, especially when knowledge is not well protected by legal mechanisms such as patents. The rapid rise in research and development (R&D) activities taking place in offshore locations that only offer weak legal protection for intellectual property provides the ideal context to study this question. Using interview and survey data from captive R&D centers of multinational firms in India, we (1) identify five organizational practices that firms use to protect their knowledge from leaking to competitors in offshore locations, (2) consider whether these practices limit knowledge leakage or limit damage from leaked knowledge, and (3) explore whether they are complements or substitutes.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 98-116 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Strategy Science |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2020 |
Keywords
- Knowledge leakage
- Knowledge stickiness
- Knowledge system dependence
- Organization design
- Research and development (R&D) offshoring
- Trade secrets protection
- Weak intellectual property (IP) regimes
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