Innovation and Technological Knowledge Utilization in Supply Networks

We focus on a buyer as a source of technological knowledge
for a supplier and examine factors that make a supplier utilize
technological knowledge from the buyer. Specifically, we
study buyer innovation, technological similarity between a
supplier and a buyer, a supplier’s dependence on a buyer,
and buyer-supplier size asymmetry, and how these factors
interrelate in influencing the extent of the knowledge
utilization from the buyer by the supplier.