Local firms' knowledge acquisition in developing countries: Synergy between relationship embeddedness and absorptive capacity

Global manufacturing network provides local firms in developing countries an important opportunity to acquire knowledge and innovate technologically. In the open innovation environment, different types of local firms participating in global manufacturing network have different performance in synergy between relationship embeddedness and absorptive capacity, which lead to its internal logic complexity of knowledge acquisition and uncertainty of innovative evolution path. Thus, this study theoretically discusses the different paths of knowledge acquisition for different local firms in developing countries respectively.