Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer

While realizing that technologies, knowledge, and competencies are the technology supplier’s main source of competitive advantage, the current inter-firm technology transfer (TT) issue in international joint ventures (IJVs) revolves around the extent of degree of technologies that are transferred by...

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Main Authors: Abdul Wahad, Sazali, Che Rose, Raduan, Uli, Jegak, Abdullah, Haslinda
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Language:English
Published: European Journals, Inc. 2009
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7593/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7593/1/Moderating%20Effects%20of%20MNCs.pdf
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author Abdul Wahad, Sazali
Che Rose, Raduan
Uli, Jegak
Abdullah, Haslinda
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Che Rose, Raduan
Uli, Jegak
Abdullah, Haslinda
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description While realizing that technologies, knowledge, and competencies are the technology supplier’s main source of competitive advantage, the current inter-firm technology transfer (TT) issue in international joint ventures (IJVs) revolves around the extent of degree of technologies that are transferred by the suppliers to recipient partners in terms of tacit and explicit knowledge. Previous studies on intra-firm knowledge transfer have acknowledged the significant influence of technology actors and facilitators/barriers such as the knowledge transferred, source, recipient and contextual/relational characteristics in the knowledge transfer process. Although previous studies have established the significant relationships between technology transfer determinants and technology transfer, however, these relationships could possibly have been influenced by the MNCs’ country of origin (MNCCOO). Based on the underlying knowledge-based view (KBV) and organizational learning (OL) perspectives, the main objective of this paper is to empirically examine the moderating effects of the MNCs’ country of origin in the relationships between technology recipient characteristics: absorptive capacity (ACAP) and recipient collaborativeness (RCOL) and two distinct dimensions of degrees of technology transfer: degrees of tacit and explicit knowledge within IJVs. Using the moderated multiple regression (MMR), the theoretical models and hypotheses in this study were tested based on empirical data
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spelling upm-75932016-02-03T00:53:51Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7593/ Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer Abdul Wahad, Sazali Che Rose, Raduan Uli, Jegak Abdullah, Haslinda While realizing that technologies, knowledge, and competencies are the technology supplier’s main source of competitive advantage, the current inter-firm technology transfer (TT) issue in international joint ventures (IJVs) revolves around the extent of degree of technologies that are transferred by the suppliers to recipient partners in terms of tacit and explicit knowledge. Previous studies on intra-firm knowledge transfer have acknowledged the significant influence of technology actors and facilitators/barriers such as the knowledge transferred, source, recipient and contextual/relational characteristics in the knowledge transfer process. Although previous studies have established the significant relationships between technology transfer determinants and technology transfer, however, these relationships could possibly have been influenced by the MNCs’ country of origin (MNCCOO). Based on the underlying knowledge-based view (KBV) and organizational learning (OL) perspectives, the main objective of this paper is to empirically examine the moderating effects of the MNCs’ country of origin in the relationships between technology recipient characteristics: absorptive capacity (ACAP) and recipient collaborativeness (RCOL) and two distinct dimensions of degrees of technology transfer: degrees of tacit and explicit knowledge within IJVs. Using the moderated multiple regression (MMR), the theoretical models and hypotheses in this study were tested based on empirical data European Journals, Inc. 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7593/1/Moderating%20Effects%20of%20MNCs.pdf Abdul Wahad, Sazali and Che Rose, Raduan and Uli, Jegak and Abdullah, Haslinda (2009) Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer. European Journal of Scientific Research, 37 (2). pp. 337-350. ISSN 1450-216X
spellingShingle Abdul Wahad, Sazali
Che Rose, Raduan
Uli, Jegak
Abdullah, Haslinda
Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer
title Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer
title_full Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer
title_fullStr Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer
title_full_unstemmed Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer
title_short Moderating Effects of MNCs’ Country of Origin in the Relationship between Technology Recipient Characteristics and Degree of Inter-Firm Technology Transfer
title_sort moderating effects of mncs’ country of origin in the relationship between technology recipient characteristics and degree of inter-firm technology transfer
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7593/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7593/1/Moderating%20Effects%20of%20MNCs.pdf