The strategies that an MNE can take to establish its foreign presence determine how it will share knowledge with its subsidiaries. For example, a home replication strategy features a moderate level of interdependence between a headquarters and its subsidiaries, in which the latter adapt and leverage competencies developed by the former.

For the manager of an MNE, which strategy, in your opinion, offers the optimal mode of knowledge management? Why is this mode better than others? Do you think it is more important for knowledge to flow from local subsidiaries to headquarters or vice-versa? Or, would you prefer a flow of knowledge in multiple directions? If you prefer the last option, what kind of resources would make such communication both effective and efficient?