지식공유의도, 신뢰, 기회주의적 행동의 위험이 공급망 참여기업 사이의 지식교환에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 공급망 상류 EMS기업의 후방 관계를 중심으로

Knowledge exchange among supply chain partners becomes more important in today’s globalized business environment. Also, an important issue in inter-firm collaboration among supply chain partners is the strategic intent to exchange relevant organizational knowledge. However, existing studies on inter-firm knowledge exchange incorporating strategic intent are not clear about the influences of situational factors such as trust and risk of opportunism. Further, different types of strategic intent such as exploration intent and exploitation intent may have different relationships with these situational factors. The first objective of this work is to examine whether knowledge exchange is affected by different types of strategic intent, that is, exploration and exploitation. The second objective is to investigate the moderating effects of trust and risk of opportunism on the relationship between strategic intent and knowledge exchange. Data has been used from a field study of 80 Korean firms in the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry to test the proposed research model. The findings have important theoretical and practical implications, which are discussed in the paper.