click on star to go back to Joseph Sarkis' HomepageThis paper proposes an examination of public and private research and development (R&D) relationships performance and factors which determine possible success (good performance) levels, especially within a learning and knowledge management context. We apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) to arrive at relative efficiency scores which serve as performance measures. The data set includes intersectoral R&D relationships supported by Spanish companies and Public Research Centers (PRC). We empirically investigate how participating firm as control variable, R&D project, and organizational characteristics influence intersectoral R&D project performance. Our findings point out that PRC’s show more synergy with smaller organizations. Small organizations take better advantage of PRC expertise and resources. Likewise, we also show that integrated R&D projects get better results than when R&D projects are not joined to other R&D projects or organizational functions. This finding suggests that although dynamic cultures tend to have bigger level of achievement and capability to create competitive advantage are perceived to be less effective because they are less easily implemented and readily observable.
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