IMPACT OF LEARNING ON SUCCESS OF TECHNOLOGY TRAt'lSFER

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2001-05
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CHIN, LOH SEOK
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Leveraging on knowledge as intellectual capital is of emerging interest as a fmn's strategy. This implies the importance of learning to enable a firm's long-run viability. Learning is not so extensive in the Malaysia workplace and yet, technology transfers are common among the manufacturing firms. A research was undertaken to study the impact of learning on the success of technology transfer. The empirical result is based on 97 technology transfers by manufacturing firms in Peninsula Malaysia. Impact of extent of field-trip learning, extent of formal learning, extent of informal learning and effectiveness of overall learning on success of technology transfer were diligently studied. Complexity of the technology is thought to moderate the relationships. Cooper's (1988) three-dimension taxonomy describe the technology by radical-incremental, technological-administrative and process-product dimensions. Only radical-incremental dimension was found to moderate (pure moderator) on the relationship of extent of field-trip learning to success of technology transfer. The other two dimensions do not have any moderating effect. The extent of field-trip learning, extent of formal learning and effectiveness of overall learning are identified to be positive predictors towards the success of technology transfer at 5% significance level. However, the extent of informal learning is only a predictor at 10% significance level. Informal learning is not as profound as field-trip learning and formal learning. Additional to the model, effect of extent of learning on effectiveness of learning was also studied. Pearson correlations show that extent of all three ways of learning are significantly correlated to effectiveness of overall learning at 0.05 significance level.
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