Authors:
Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo
and
Murali Raman
Affiliation:
Multimedia Univeristy, Malaysia
Keyword(s):
Absorptive Capacity, Individual Differences, Knowledge Acquisition Capability, Joint ICT Project Team,
Partner’s Support, Malaysia, Micro Antecedents.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Best Practices & Communities of Practice
;
Communication, Collaboration and Information Sharing
;
Communities of Practice
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
KM Strategies and Implementations
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge Management Projects
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Learning Organization & Organizational Learning
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
This study investigates the significance of joint ICT projects with foreign partners in the acquisition of
knowledge by local personnel in an emerging economy, based on the perspective of individual’s absorptive
capacity (i.e., ACAP). The model conceptualizes knowledge acquisition capability as the individual
dimension of ACAP and posits differences in prior experience and learning orientation as well as
individual’s perception of partner’s support as antecedents to local employees’ abilities to (i) recognize the
value of and (ii) assimilate foreign partners’ embedded knowledge. This model was validated by the results
of the structural equation modelling, conducted on a cross sectional survey of 205 local team members of
joint ICT projects in Malaysia. All the hypothesized relationships were supported, with the exception of that
between prior experience and ability to recognize the value of knowledge as well as learning orientation and
ability to assimilate knowledge. Accordingly, th
e theoretical and practical implications of the findings were
expatiated, with suggestions offered on the areas for future research.
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