Obtaining collaboration benefits: the role of collaboration-specific investment and absorptive capacity in China |
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Authors: | Chung-Yean Chiang Mark Hanna Zhenyu Liu Xiangyu Lu |
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Affiliation: | 1.Johnson College of Business and Economics,University of South Carolina Upstate,Spartanburg,USA;2.Department of Logistics & Supply Chain Management,Georgia Southern University,Statesboro,USA;3.Department of Management Science,Xiamen University,Xiamen,China |
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Abstract: | This study examines the role of collaboration-specific investment and absorptive capacity on the attainment of interorganizational collaboration benefits. Grounded in the extended resource-based view, and using survey data from Chinese executives, we study the driver for, and test the impacts of, collaboration-specific investment and organizational learning on collaboration performance. Our findings indicate that resource similarity between the collaborative partners affects the level of collaboration-specific investment and learning, and demonstrate an approach that firms can use to obtain both abnormal common and private benefits from participation in an interorganizational collaboration. Specifically, the findings suggest that collaboration-specific investment has a direct effect on the enhancement of absorptive capacity and attainment of common and private collaboration benefits. Furthermore, due to the direct effect of absorptive capacity on attainment of collaboration benefits, commitment of collaboration-specific investment has an indirect effect on the attainment of common and private collaboration benefits. This study is the first to apply both the competence-capability framework and extended resource-based view to study interorganizational collaboration. In fact, this study aims to determine mechanisms for a collaboration-participating firm to obtain more benefit, whether common or private. Our findings provide support for the importance of learning capability as a factor in the acquisition of collaboration benefits. |
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