Product Development Knowledge Acquisitions and Capabilities Enhancement in Cross-Border Manufacturing Alliances

• Main Authors: Huang, Yen-Tsung, 黃延聰
• Other Authors: Chuang, Cheng-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76319316835842949058

博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 商學研究所 === 90 === This study examines the capabilities enhancement through cross-border alliances. Based on the cross-border manufacturing alliances of Taiwanese information technology firms, this study proposes and tests a model of the product development capabilities enhancement of Taiwanese firm. Integrating literatures of organizational learning, knowledge management, and absorptive capacity, this study proposes the processes of firms’ capabilities development: knowledge acquisitions, knowledge processing, and knowledge application. The three processes influence the firm’s capabilities enhancement through alliances. Accordingly, this study attempts to explore two questions: What determinants influence firms’ knowledge acquisitions in alliances? How do firms process and apply the acquired knowledge? To the former question, this study employs organizational interaction, knowledge-base, and contextual embeddedness perspectives, proposing nine determinants: learning intention, knowledge gap, knowledge protection, knowledge tacitness, knowledge complexity, interorganizational interaction, national cultural difference, organizational context difference, and interorganizatioal trust. To the later one, this study bases organizational learning and knowledge management perspectives, proposing seven affective factors: knowledge processing in task teams, knowledge sharing in functional departments, cross intraorganizational border knowledge transfer, new knowledge institutionalization, utilization of project teams, horizontal coordination capability, and focusing on core competence. Through mail survey, 150 effective samples of cross-border manufacturing alliance of Taiwanese information technology firms are collected and analyzed. Using regression and simultaneous equations model, the proposed model are tested. The main conclusions are presented as follows: 1.Knowledge acquisitions in the alliance, knowledge processing in the firm, and knowledge application in the firm are the determinants of capabilities enhancement. 2.In capabilities development process, knowledge acquisitions in the alliance influence knowledge processing and application in the firm. 3.The more intensive the interaction between alliance partners, the greater knowledge acquired by alliance partner. 4.The higher the degree of trust between alliance partners, the greater knowledge acquired by alliance partner. 5.The more the firm’s task team participating alliance processes the acquired knowledge, the more the firm enhances its capabilities through the alliance.