PurposeThis study aims to focus on a key unanswered question about how digitalization and the knowledge processes it enables affect firms' strategies in the international arena.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conduct a systematic literature review of relevant theoretical and empirical studies covering over 20 years of research (from 2000 to 2023) and including 73 journal papers.FindingsThis review allows us to highlight a relationship between firms' international strategies and the knowledge processes enabled by applying digital technologies. Specifically, the authors discuss the characteristics of patterns of knowledge flows and knowledge processes (their origin, the type of knowledge they carry on and their directionality) as determinants for the emergence of diverse international strategies embraced by single firms or by populations of firms within ecosystems, networks, global value chains or alliances.Originality/valueDespite digital technologies constituting important antecedents and critical factors for the internationalization process, and international businesses in general, and operating cross borders implies the enactment of highly knowledge-intensive processes, current literature still fails to provide a holistic picture of how firms strategically use what they know and seek out what they do not know in the international environment, using the affordances of digital technologies.

Massa, S., Annosi, M.c., Marchegiani, L., Petruzzell, A.m. (2023). Digital technologies and knowledge processes: new emerging strategies in international business. A systematic literature review. JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, 27(11), 387 [10.1108/JKM-12-2022-0993].

Digital technologies and knowledge processes: new emerging strategies in international business. A systematic literature review

Annosi, MC;Marchegiani, L;
2023-01-01

Abstract

PurposeThis study aims to focus on a key unanswered question about how digitalization and the knowledge processes it enables affect firms' strategies in the international arena.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conduct a systematic literature review of relevant theoretical and empirical studies covering over 20 years of research (from 2000 to 2023) and including 73 journal papers.FindingsThis review allows us to highlight a relationship between firms' international strategies and the knowledge processes enabled by applying digital technologies. Specifically, the authors discuss the characteristics of patterns of knowledge flows and knowledge processes (their origin, the type of knowledge they carry on and their directionality) as determinants for the emergence of diverse international strategies embraced by single firms or by populations of firms within ecosystems, networks, global value chains or alliances.Originality/valueDespite digital technologies constituting important antecedents and critical factors for the internationalization process, and international businesses in general, and operating cross borders implies the enactment of highly knowledge-intensive processes, current literature still fails to provide a holistic picture of how firms strategically use what they know and seek out what they do not know in the international environment, using the affordances of digital technologies.
2023
Massa, S., Annosi, M.c., Marchegiani, L., Petruzzell, A.m. (2023). Digital technologies and knowledge processes: new emerging strategies in international business. A systematic literature review. JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, 27(11), 387 [10.1108/JKM-12-2022-0993].
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