Learning and Innovation in International Strategic Alliances: An Empirical Test of the Role of Trust and Tacitness

Nielsen, Bo Bernhard; Nielsen, Sabina

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00840.x

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“…Kogut and Singh 1988;Nielsen 2007). Nielsen and Nielsen (2009) argued that the likelihood of failure is high due to dissimilarities between partners. The international nature of the relationship increases the complexity and uncertainty involved, and one example is that the enforcement of intellectual property rights differs between countries, thus increasing the risk related to international technology alliances (Kranenburg et al 2014).…”

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International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

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International coopetition has rarely been studied in relation to innovation. Further exploration of effects of international coopetition, i.e. the pursuit of simultaneous cooperation and competition, on a firm's innovation performance is especially important as such a relationship is challenging with a high propensity to fail. This observation formed the point of departure for this study, which aims to increase the understanding of the effects of international coopetition on firm innovativeness and how these effects are conditioned on the magnitude of the organizational adjustments a firm introduces. We use an unbalanced panel of 9839 firms that participated in four waves of the Swedish Community Innovation Survey between 2008 and 2014 as our empirical base. We illustrate that firms that cooperate with competitors internationally are more likely to exhibit higher propensity to introduce radical innovations, yet this effect is conditioned upon the magnitude of organizational adjustments. Overall, our study contributes to the understanding of the implications of international coopetition and what a firm needs to benefit from it.

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“…Based on Nielsen and Nielsen's (2009) notion that both partners' perceptions are symmetrically important in reflecting facets of relational exchanges in crossborder collaborations, we applied mutual-dimensional items to assess mutual trust as the extent to which partners interact and communicate with each other in a respectful manner (Cousins, Handfield, Lawson, & Petersen, 2006;Liu et al, 2010).…”

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“…We measure access to knowledge using two Likert-type scale items adapted from Nielsen and Nielsen's (2009) and Jensen, van den Bosch, and Volberda's (2005) studies that capture the extent to which the partner restricts your firm's access to the knowledge bases and the extent to which the partner's cooperative structure in knowledge transfer and learning is open and flexible.…”

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Institutional distance and knowledge acquisition in international buyer-supplier relationships: The moderating role of trust

Ghauri

Larimo

2017

Asia Pac J Manag

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Institutional distance can generate expanded opportunities for multinational firms to facilitate learning and responsiveness. However, such distance can also create obstacles regarding knowledge transfer and integration. A theoretical puzzle concerns the mechanisms and conditions in which international buyers and suppliers can overcome institutional distance and acquire new knowledge. We develop an integrative moderated-mediation model in which institutional distance prevents parties from accessing knowledge but, when knowledge is obtained and mutual trust is developed, it promotes cross-border knowledge acquisition in international buyer-supplier exchange, particularly between international firms and firms from the Asia Pacific region. These findings indicate that firms can overcome the challenges of regulative and cognitive distance and facilitate access to knowledge and knowledge acquisition when they are able to develop and cultivate relationships of mutual trust with foreign partners. While normative distance may create learning incentives and opportunities in international buyer-supplier relationships, its impacts on knowledge accessibility and acquisition are insignificant.

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“…Based on these, Table 1 summarises the present methodological profile. Zineldin-Jonsson [2000] x -x x Handfield-Bechtel [2002] x -x x Brashear et al [2003] x -x x Dyer-Chu [2003] x -x x Farrelly-Quester [2003] x -x x Izquierdo-Cillán [2004 ] x -x x Kwon-Suh [2004] x -x x Ryssel-Ritter-Gemünden [2004] x -x x Gounaris [2003] x -x x Leung et al [2005] x -x x Svensson [2005] x -x x Barnes-Naudé-Michell [2005] x -x x Ulaga-Eggert [2006] x -x x Svensson [2006] x -x x x Zhao-Cavusgil [2006] x -x x Caceres-Paparoidamis [2007] x -x x Eriksson-Laan [2007] x -x x Kingshott-Pecotich [2007] x -x x Liu-Luo-Liu [2009] x -x x Nielsen-Nielsen [2009] x -x x Panayides-Lun [2009] x -x x Yeung et al [2009] x -x x Wagner-Eggert-Lindemann [2010] x -x x Davis et al [2011] x -x x Jiang-Henneberg-Naudé [2012] x -x x Source: Gelei-Dobos [2016] p. 672.…”

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The challenge of researching dyadic phenomena – the comparison of dyadic data analysis and traditional statistical methods*

Gelei¹,

Sugár²

2017

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The study of business relationships poses a number of challenges. This article focuses specifically on the methodological issues arising from the dyadic nature of relations. As a consequence of the dyadic nature, it is important that throughout the analyses the phenomena can be measured as embedded in the given relation and in this way, they can be studied without losing their unique context. A common criticism of using questionnaire surveys in examining business relations is that in research, the so-called single-ended operationalising or measure is dominant, and the data thus obtained is analysed by traditional mathematical-statistical methods. According to critical opinions in the literature, this methodological practice cannot lead to reliable results.The present article uses the database of a questionnaire survey to investigate whether the former standpoint is well founded. A specific research hypothesis is tested on the data obtained from paired query. In this process, the suggested methods for dyadic data analysis are used besides analyses carried out using various measures from traditional statistics. Dyadic data analysis provides extra value primarily in its perspective; regarding the results in the present study, it has not proved to be a major breakthrough.

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Learning and Innovation in International Strategic Alliances: An Empirical Test of the Role of Trust and Tacitness

Cited by 235 publications

References 107 publications

International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

Institutional distance and knowledge acquisition in international buyer-supplier relationships: The moderating role of trust

The challenge of researching dyadic phenomena – the comparison of dyadic data analysis and traditional statistical methods*

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