Inter-firm Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing as mediators of the interrelation between Asset Specificity and Innovative Performance

Abstract

This study explores the asset specificity in bottle drinking manufacturing in Indonesia, affecting the innovative performance by mediating constructs. Employing the theory of relational exchange theory to discover these links, some hypotheses are built by viewing inter-firm collaboration and knowledge sharing as an intervening variables. A partial least square-structural equation model explores the study, and 121 firms were compiled as the data respondent. The empirical outcomes exhibit that inter-firm collaboration and knowledge sharing mediate asset specificity on innovative performance. In theory, the research exposes which theory of relational exchange creates synergy relation asset specificity on innovative performance across the intervening variable.