Research on the“Cross Border”Three-dimensional Learning Model of Cross-national Strategic Alliances

Yang Zhenning, Li Donghong, Zhao Hong

Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 38, Issue 11, pp. 83 - 100 (2016)  DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.2016.11.007

Abstract

More and more high-tech firms in China establish cross-national technology strategic alliances with multi-national corporations to do technology learning, knowledge transfer and innovation. Previous research only focuses on plane learning process of alliances, and this paper pays attention to the joint role of previous learning process of cross-national technology strategic alliances and current learning quality of cross-national technology strategic alliances in firm innovation. It uses the survey of cross-national technology strategic alliance enterprises to establish a structural equation model (SEM) and study "cross-border" three-dimensional learning process of cross-national technology strategic alliance enterprises. It comes to the results as follows:firstly, previous cross-national technology strategic alliances' learning process includes exploration, screening, absorption, application and creation, and has effects on current cross-national alliance learning quality (learning effect and learning speed); secondly, current learning quality of cross-national technology strategic alliances plays a mediator role in the relationship between previous alliances' learning process and innovation performance; thirdly, alliance enterprises' innovation performance varies with cultural distance, international experience and strategic resources complementarity. It is of great theory and practice significance to the construction of cross-national technology strategic alliances, alliance technology learning and knowledge transfer in Chinese high-tech enterprises.

Keywords

cross-national technology strategic alliance; prior learning process; current learning quality; innovation performance; mediating effect