Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector

International technology transfer and absorptive capacity play a trivial role in technological capacity building in newly industrialized countries. Despite various ambitious and visionary roadmaps, Malaysia‘s aerospace industry is still confined to basic manufacturing, maintenance, repair and overha...

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Main Author:	Van Der, Patrick Heiden
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	HD30.2 Knowledge management
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53995/1/PatrickVanDerMFGHT2016.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.539952020-10-12T08:33:55Z Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector 2016-01 Van Der, Patrick Heiden HD30.2 Knowledge management International technology transfer and absorptive capacity play a trivial role in technological capacity building in newly industrialized countries. Despite various ambitious and visionary roadmaps, Malaysia‘s aerospace industry is still confined to basic manufacturing, maintenance, repair and overhaul and lacks substantial research and development and design activities. As absorptive capacity is a prerequisite for organizational learning, which is the basis for technological capacity building, identifying barriers to absorptive capacity is essential to explain why Malaysia is performing suboptimal in realizing technological capacity building in the aerospace realm. A questionnaire survey and in-depth one-on-one semi-structured interviews utilizing the Delphi survey method with respondents in the global, Southeast Asian and Malaysian aerospace sectors were executed. Data triangulation of the questionnaire and Delphi survey was applied. The generated data was statistically analyzed and the extracted results indicated inconsistencies in education and training and various institutional and organizational barriers as major impediments to Malaysian technological capacity building. The role of education and training for establishing sufficient levels of absorptive capacity is substantial and forms a fundamental part of a nation‘s ability to establish and cultivate absorptive capacity on a national or organization-specific level. Recommendations are provided to enhance Malaysia‘s absorptive capacity and assist the nation in the technological capacity building of its aerospace industry. This research further contributes to the extant literature on absorptive capacity by proposing a new model of necessitated absorptive capacity. The results carry significant implications for policy-makers, managers, professionals and academics in the field of international technology transfer and absorptive capacity. 2016-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53995/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53995/1/PatrickVanDerMFGHT2016.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:85860 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Real Estate Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate
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spellingShingle	HD30.2 Knowledge management Van Der, Patrick Heiden Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector
description	International technology transfer and absorptive capacity play a trivial role in technological capacity building in newly industrialized countries. Despite various ambitious and visionary roadmaps, Malaysia‘s aerospace industry is still confined to basic manufacturing, maintenance, repair and overhaul and lacks substantial research and development and design activities. As absorptive capacity is a prerequisite for organizational learning, which is the basis for technological capacity building, identifying barriers to absorptive capacity is essential to explain why Malaysia is performing suboptimal in realizing technological capacity building in the aerospace realm. A questionnaire survey and in-depth one-on-one semi-structured interviews utilizing the Delphi survey method with respondents in the global, Southeast Asian and Malaysian aerospace sectors were executed. Data triangulation of the questionnaire and Delphi survey was applied. The generated data was statistically analyzed and the extracted results indicated inconsistencies in education and training and various institutional and organizational barriers as major impediments to Malaysian technological capacity building. The role of education and training for establishing sufficient levels of absorptive capacity is substantial and forms a fundamental part of a nation‘s ability to establish and cultivate absorptive capacity on a national or organization-specific level. Recommendations are provided to enhance Malaysia‘s absorptive capacity and assist the nation in the technological capacity building of its aerospace industry. This research further contributes to the extant literature on absorptive capacity by proposing a new model of necessitated absorptive capacity. The results carry significant implications for policy-makers, managers, professionals and academics in the field of international technology transfer and absorptive capacity.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Van Der, Patrick Heiden
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title	Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector
title_short	Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector
title_full	Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector
title_fullStr	Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector
title_full_unstemmed	Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Real Estate
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publishDate	2016
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Barriers to absorptive capacity in the Malaysian aerospace sector

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