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Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia

Technology transfer is becoming increasingly important for business and economic growth in developing nations. The modern global economy uses knowledge resources to increase productivity and foster improvements in standard of living. Individual businesses acquire knowledge of advanced technologies t...

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Main Authors: Sathasivam, Thanaletchumi, Ismail, Zuraini, Songip, Ahmad Rahman
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Language:English
Published: David Publishing 2010
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling my.utm.372702017-02-15T00:55:26Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37270/ Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia Sathasivam, Thanaletchumi Ismail, Zuraini Songip, Ahmad Rahman TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Technology transfer is becoming increasingly important for business and economic growth in developing nations. The modern global economy uses knowledge resources to increase productivity and foster improvements in standard of living. Individual businesses acquire knowledge of advanced technologies to establish and maintain competitive positioning in the global marketplace. Without proper knowledge acquisition, transfer of technology cannot take place. The process of acquiring knowledge requires the organization to choose or adapt elements of the technology to local cultural conditions to integrate it with indigenous technologies. The cultural context of the recipient can also affect the process of acquiring knowledge. The culture and social environment of the individual creates a schema for organizing knowledge and understanding reality. This paper has two objectives: Firstly, to investigate how organisational culture affects readiness for technology transfer, and secondly, to identify elements of organisational culture affecting readiness for technology transfer. Qualitative mode of data collection was used in this study as well as interview and focus group discussion. The results from the preliminary investigations were used to create the components of the framework. Hypotheses were formulated between the constructs of the framework and a rigorous attempt was made using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to validate the construct as they created through qualitative findings. David Publishing 2010-12 Article PeerReviewed text/html en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37270/2/index.html_id%3D10853 Sathasivam, Thanaletchumi and Ismail, Zuraini and Songip, Ahmad Rahman (2010) Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia. China-USA Business Review, 9 (12). pp. 44-56. ISSN 1537-1514
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Sathasivam, Thanaletchumi
Ismail, Zuraini
Songip, Ahmad Rahman
Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia
description Technology transfer is becoming increasingly important for business and economic growth in developing nations. The modern global economy uses knowledge resources to increase productivity and foster improvements in standard of living. Individual businesses acquire knowledge of advanced technologies to establish and maintain competitive positioning in the global marketplace. Without proper knowledge acquisition, transfer of technology cannot take place. The process of acquiring knowledge requires the organization to choose or adapt elements of the technology to local cultural conditions to integrate it with indigenous technologies. The cultural context of the recipient can also affect the process of acquiring knowledge. The culture and social environment of the individual creates a schema for organizing knowledge and understanding reality. This paper has two objectives: Firstly, to investigate how organisational culture affects readiness for technology transfer, and secondly, to identify elements of organisational culture affecting readiness for technology transfer. Qualitative mode of data collection was used in this study as well as interview and focus group discussion. The results from the preliminary investigations were used to create the components of the framework. Hypotheses were formulated between the constructs of the framework and a rigorous attempt was made using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to validate the construct as they created through qualitative findings.
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author Sathasivam, Thanaletchumi
Ismail, Zuraini
Songip, Ahmad Rahman
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Ismail, Zuraini
Songip, Ahmad Rahman
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title Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia
title_short Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia
title_full Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia
title_fullStr Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in Malaysia
title_sort designing a framework for acquiring technological knowledge among technology transfer recipients-a perspective from a radar manufacturing firm in malaysia
publisher David Publishing
publishDate 2010
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