The impacts of specificity investments on relationship learning and competence building: the supplier's perspective

Wann-Yih Wu, Su-Chao Chang and Ya-Jung Wu

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2006, vol. 3, issue 3, 244-263

Abstract: This paper develops a research model to integrate supplier's specificity investments and relationship learning, as well as competence building, and, further tests the model using collected data from 148 exporting suppliers in Taiwanese manufacturing industries. The study concludes that while the direct effect of supplier's specificity investments on competence building is not verified, the indirect effect, which is mediated by way of relationship learning, is positive.

Keywords: specificity investments; relationship learning; competence building; Taiwan; manufacturing; suppliers; buyer-supplier relationship; transaction cost theory. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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