R&D COLLABORATION BETWEEN FIRMS: HARD AND SOFT ANTECEDENTS OF SUPPLIER KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Roland Helm (), Martin Kloyer and Christin Aust ()
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Roland Helm: University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31 Regensburg, Germany, 93053
Martin Kloyer: #x2020;University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Loeffler-Str. 70, Greifswald, Germany, 17489
Christin Aust: University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31 Regensburg, Germany, 93053

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2018, vol. 24, issue 01, 1-42

Abstract: Manufacturing firms that collaborate with external R&D partners are inevitably confronted with the danger of R&D suppliers deliberately with holding knowledge. Empirical analyses on a set of 104 supplier firms provide results concerning the impact of “soft” determinants of knowledge sharing that have not been investigated to date. In particular, they show that intrinsic motivation and organisational culture are more important than better examined “hard” determinants such as behaviour monitoring and the collaboration perspective. Additionally, we detect a theoretically surprising effect of knowledge sharing on the supplier firm’s success.

Keywords: R&D collaboration; knowledge sharing; moral hazard; opportunism; governance mechanisms; R&D outsourcing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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