The business opportunities in Southern Africa have justified any effort to learn more about the phenomenon of the transfer of knowledge to the local subsidiaries. We studied four cases with activities in the industrial sector. The results obtained indicate that an efficient transfer of knowledge...

From the absorptive capacity perspective, this study investigates the extent to which a firm that uses external knowledge attained through R&D outsourcing can increase its performance, and how this effect is moderated by a firm's absorptive capacity via internal R&D efforts and organizational...

Business opportunities in Southern Africa have created an increasing interest on the part of foreign investors in markets like, for instance, the Mozambican market. This fact justifies getting a better understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge transfer to the Mozambican subsidiaries. We have...

With the dramatically changing technology and market environments, the importance of technology alliance to develop new products and technologies by utilizing firms¡¯ external knowledge has increased. In order to provide insight on the relationship between teacher characteristics and...

With the dramatically changing technology and market environments, the importance of technology alliance to develop new products and technologies by utilizing firms' external knowledge has increased. In order to provide insight on the relationship between teacher characteristics and technology...

The availability of knowledge is an essential factor for an economy in global competition. Companies realise innovations by creating and implementing new knowledge. Sources of innovative ideas are partners in the production network but also new employees coming from another company or academia....

Knowledge transfer between science and technology has been studied at micro- and macro-levels of analysis. This has contributed to the understanding of the mechanisms and drivers, but actual transfer mechanism and process, be they through codified or tacit sources, have very rarely been mapped...

This study examines the relationship between knowledge management (KM) (in terms of external acquisition and internal sharing) and innovation behavior. The concept of absorptive capacity and assumptions from the dynamic capabilities view underlie the proposed framework and hypotheses. The...