...Seok-Young Oh; Sehwa Kim Purpose This study aims to investigate how the inter-organizational learning (inter-OL) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) promote intra-organizational learnings (intra-OL) and how inter- and intra-OL jointly promote organizational innovation in the Korean electronics...

... with a single variable) by considering the distinct search directions that organizations can follow. Thus, the study focusses on external knowledge search by companies, which constitutes an initial phase of the complex and broader process of inter-organizational learning. Specifically, it addresses the question...