To increase global competitiveness, technological capabilities, and potential for local innovation, organizations in the developing countries are striving hard to collaborate, learn and internalize their foreign partner's technological knowledge by forming strategic alliances and international joint ventures (IJVs). The inter-firm technology transfer characteristics have become the vital factors in determining the success or failure of inter-firm technology transfer within IJVs. Since the current issue on inter-firm technology transfer (TT) in the developing countries is centered on the...