ACHIEVING ALLIANCE INNOVATION VIA ALLIANCE LEARNING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Tania Bucic () and Liem Viet Ngo ()
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Tania Bucic: Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Kensington Campus, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Liem Viet Ngo: Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Kensington Campus, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2013, vol. 17, issue 04, 1-17

Abstract: Firms increasingly enter into business alliances in an effort to manage the innovation process and with a view to achieving better outcomes. The process therefore likely benefits from greater alliance learning, which can help transform alliance creativity and absorptive capacity into innovative outputs and thus a sustainable advantage for the alliance firms. Survey data collected from 389 Australian firms confirm that alliance creativity and absorptive capacity affect alliance innovation through the mediating role of alliance learning. In contrast, a test of an alternative moderating perspective reveals that alliance learning does not play a significant moderating role in these relationships. Although this study uses a cross-sectional, key-informant design, it offers important insights for research and practice.

Keywords: Alliance creativity; absorptive capacity; alliance innovation; alliance learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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