The Influence of Alliance Attributes on the Performance of Knowledge/Technology Transfer －A Study on the SMEs in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Ya-Yuan Chen, 陳亞媛
• Other Authors: Wen-Ruey Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37349707848155388583

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 國際企業管理研究所 === 89 === The market environment is more and more competitive, companies being limited by their resource know that to survive, gain efficiency, and reduce risk, they should form strategic alliance with others to get knowledge / technology to keep competitive advantage. Strategic alliance can integrate partners’ resource, ability and have strategic flexibility. The sample firms of this study are the SMEs in Taiwan, which have the experience of strategic alliance. This research divides all sample firms into subgroups of alliances in the same / different industry and horizontal / vertical alliance. By applying LISREL model, 114 firms are empirically analyzed. Findings of this research indicate that （1）tacitness of knowledge/technology is positively associated with communication between partners；（2）communication between partners and symmetry of scale are positively associated with trust toward partner；（3）trust toward partner is positively associated with performance of knowledge / technology transfer. Trust toward partner is the key-point in the strategic alliance, it has significant influence on the performance of knowledge / technology transfer.