How to Perform Knowledge Creation Successfully in International Strategic Alliances: A Multilevel Perspective

For companies in emerging countries, international strategic alliances provide excellent opportunities for knowledge transfer and creation. In practice, it is easy to observe there is a nested relationship between international strategic alliances and a company, and this relationship covers micro strategic alliances level and macro organizational level. In order to more precisely explore knowledge creation in international strategic alliances, this study explores the antecedents of both strategic alliances level and organizational level on knowledge creation. Empirical results show that knowledge transfer which is from strategic alliance level has a positively significant impact on knowledge creation; company scale, R&D intensity and business group scale which are from organizational level have a positively significant effect on knowledge creation. And, both of company scale and business group scale have a cross-level moderating effect on the relationship between knowledge transfer and knowledge creation.