How cognitive coordination promotes collaborative knowledge-sharing performance: the mediating role of interorganisational knowledge flows

Jenn-Maw Cheng, Nicolai J. Foss, Yingshing Lin and Shih-Chieh Fang

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2013, vol. 10, issue 3/4, 326-346

Abstract: In this research, we conceptualise quasi-integration, learning by interaction, shared meaning and shared values as mechanisms that managers can deploy or influence in order to align cognitive frames (i.e., achieve 'cognitive coordination') and thereby foster knowledge flows in the context of alliances and other inter-firm relations. The empirical setting is the Taiwanese semiconductor industry. Based on a sample of 353 firms in the vertical chain of this industry we test proposed relationships between the above mechanisms and knowledge-sharing performance. Structural equation modelling largely supports the theoretical predictions.

Keywords: alliances; cognitive coordination; interorganisational knowledge; knowledge flows; intellectual capital; collaboration; knowledge sharing; inter-firm relations; Taiwan; semiconductor industry; structural equation modelling; SEM. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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