Developing New Skills and Technologies in International Alliances What is The Role of Tacit Knowledge Transfer

This research analyzes how alliances can achieve their goals through inter-organizational learning that ensures knowledge transfer stimulates the creation of new knowledge and contributes to innovation. Inter-organizational learning is dependent on the barriers that can limit it such as the tacitness of allies knowledge which can kept expressly in order to defend accessing to knowledge especially that which is related to competitive advantage. This research aims to complement the work on tacit knowledge transfer and to clarify shadow areas by analyzing its effects on achieving alliances goals. A quantitative empirical analysis adopting a hypothetico-deductive approach was carried out in order to validate the causal model. The results show that tacit knowledge transfer supports the development of new technologies.