Improving management practices upon organizational characteristics — An analysis of Japanese manufacturing subsidiaries in Vietnam

Research on cross-cultural technology transfer has addressed the raising attention on various aspects; though, the improving current management practices´ performance for achieving the efficient cross-cultural technology transfer still prevails the need. This study focuses on defining which significant management actions for training, commitment, sharing and understanding should be high priority improvement to achieve efficient technology transfer and firm´s business performance. The importance-performance analysis and path analysis in structural equation modeling through SPSS/AMOS 16.0 software are utilized to solve this inquiry. It is found that the improving actions with high priority should be taken in: (a) providing materials, guidelines, formal training courses and OJT in Japan for group having less than 300 employees; (b) committing clear procedures for group of 100% Japanese-owned and less than five operation years; (c) sharing and understanding for group having more than eight experience years in cross-cultural technology transfer; and (d) increasing greatly motivation for further study to efficiently achieve both firm´s innovation capacity and firm´s productivity with transferred technology - for business group having greater than five years.