DETERMINANT FACTORS AND INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES (IJV) INNOVATIVENESS OUTCOME OF IJV KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION: FACTS FROM ALGERIA

Abstract

Economic transition in previously closed economic imposes on their local firms to form IJVs to acquire
their valuable knowledge and skills to meet the markets needs. To understand what are the potential
factors that may affect the IJVs knowledge. This paper aims to examine transfer mechanisms and
knowledge management practices as determinants to IJVs knowledge acquisition, which in turn leads
to better IJVs innovativeness. With a sample of 122 oil and gas IJVs in Algeria and through analysing
the data via PLS-SEM 3.0, the results revealed that while transfer mechanisms have a significant
relationship with IJVs knowledge acquisition. However, knowledge management practices have an
insignificant relationship with IJVs knowledge acquisition. Besides, IJVs knowledge acquisition was
positively linked to IJVs innovativeness.