Journal
JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 269-282Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2009.11.006
Keywords
Offshore OEM cooperation; Emerging economy; Learning intent; Governance mode; Absorptive capacity; Transaction value perspective
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We focus on the unique role of offshore OEM cooperation as a learning opportunity for local suppliers in the emerging economies. In particular, we conceptually argue and empirically confirm the links between learning intent, capability enhancement, governance mode, and overall innovativeness from the perspective of local suppliers in offshore OEM cooperation in China as well as the influence of local business culture within these links. We address two issues: (1) offshore OEM cooperation can be a unique opportunity for local suppliers with strong intent to learn from foreign buyers for capability enhancement and (2) the moderating effects of trust and contact as two distinctive governance modes. Addressing the two issues, we make two specific contributions to the research on inter-firm cooperation, both of which derive from the often-neglected theoretical lens of transaction value. Our general contribution lies in the extension of the transaction value perspective by specifying its dual tenets of inter-firm co-specialization and shared-trust as the central theme of inter-firm cooperation to complement the transaction cost economics and also contextualize the research on inter-firm cooperation in terms of different partners' perspectives as well as different governance modes. (C) 2009 Elsevier By. All rights reserved.
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