Knowledge complementarity, knowledge absorption effectiveness, and new product performance: The exploration of international joint ventures in China
Zheng Yao,
Zhi Yang,
Gregory J. Fisher,
Chaoqun Ma and
(Er) Fang, Eric
International Business Review, 2013, vol. 22, issue 1, 216-227
Abstract:
Firms use international joint ventures (IJVs) to access and learn from partners’ knowledge and thus enhance their new product performance, especially when the partners have complementary knowledge bases. Most of the existing literature assumes that knowledge complementarity can directly lead to enhanced new product performance, while ignoring the mediating role of knowledge absorption effectiveness and moderating effects of organizational structure and organizational culture to integrate and manage knowledge complementarity. Using dyadic data from 119 IJVs in China, this article suggests that knowledge complementarity influences IJV new product performance through the full mediation of knowledge absorption effectiveness. Also, the results suggest that an IJV's departmentalization of organizational structure significantly hurts the effect of knowledge complementarity on knowledge absorption effectiveness, while a strong learning culture of the IJV can significantly enhance such effects.
Keywords: International joint venture (IJV); Knowledge complementarity; New product performance; Organizational culture; Organizational structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2012.04.002
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