Title: How do institutional pressures effect knowledge transfer activities within university-industry partnership?

Authors: Lina Anatan

Addresses: Faculty of Economics, Department of Management, Maranatha Christian University, Jl. Prof. drg. Suria Sumantri, MPH, No. 65, Bandung, 40164, West Java, Indonesia

Abstract: Knowledge transfer within university and industry partnership is important to increase organisation competitiveness in domestic and international market. Fifty-one dyadic university and industry data collected through survey are used to investigate how institutional pressures (regulative, normative, cognitive) effect knowledge transfer activities. The findings show normative and cognitive pressures effect knowledge transfer activities. This study contributes to extend the use of institutional theory in explaining homogenisation between university and industry that significantly different in characteristics. The use of dyadic data might enrich related studies as most of the study used one perspective due to the complicated procedure of dyadic data collection.

Keywords: institutional pressures; knowledge transfer; university and industry partnership; dyadic data.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTGM.2022.120901

International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, 2022 Vol.15 No.1, pp.114 - 123

Received: 30 Jun 2020
Accepted: 12 Oct 2020
Published online: 16 Feb 2022 *

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