Learning and Innovation in International Strategic Alliances: An Empirical Test of the Role of Trust and Tacitness
基于知识、组织学习和社会资本视角，检验了知识隐性程度和信任在合作伙伴特征与联盟结果之间的中介作用，并区分了学习与创新两种结果，发现二者机制不同。
abstract Drawing on knowledge‐based, organizational learning, and social capital perspectives, we propose and test an integrated framework in which knowledge tacitness and trust act as mediating mechanisms in the relationship between partner characteristics and alliance outcomes. We distinguish between learning and innovation outcomes and suggest that while innovation may result from alliance learning, it can also be created by combining separate knowledge bases without learning from each other. We contend that tacitness and trust play differing roles in the pursuit of learning and innovation and test this proposition on a sample of 120 international strategic alliances.