Impact of organizational characteristics on the relationship of management practice factors, efficient technology transfer and firm's business performance

Abstract

Although people's attention is drawn toward efficiently achieving cross-cultural technology transfer and business performance through the innovation management practices, the investigation upon organizational characteristics could produce the insight. This study aims to explore the appropriate approaches for efficient performance upon organizational characteristics - firm's size, firm's age, firm's type of ownership, and manager's cross-cultural technology transfer experience - at 223 Japanese manufacturing subsidiaries in Vietnam. The results through SEM-multigroup analysis indicate that: (1) on the relationship between management practice factors and efficient technology transfer, the significant differences lie at firm's size for training; firm's years of operation and firm's type of ownership for management commitment; manager's experience in cross-cultural technology transfer for sharing and understanding; and (2) on the impacting correlations of efficient technology transfer on firm's business performance in term of productivity and innovative capacity, the significant difference produces at firm's operating years.