Value co‐creation between foreign firms and indigenous small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kazakhstan's oil and gas industry: the role of information technology spillovers

Heim, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3023-4839, Kalyuzhnova, Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5781-8837, Li, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2878-3185 and Liu, K. (2019) Value co‐creation between foreign firms and indigenous small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kazakhstan's oil and gas industry: the role of information technology spillovers. Thunderbird International Business Review, 61 (6). pp. 911-927. ISSN 1520-6874 doi: 10.1002/tie.22067

Abstract/Summary

Study related to the extractive sector still plays a limited role in the mainstream international business (IB) and management literature, with even less focus on ongoing liberalisation and digitalisation in the industry. This paper was motivated by the question of how collaboration between foreign and indigenous oil and gas (O&G) companies can support small and mediumsized indigenous technological development. A three-stage qualitative–interpretive method based on interviews with industry experts has been adopted in order to build three case studies. The main contribution of this paper is the development of a model that explains how different actors can cocreate value in the ecosystem of public–private partnership (PPP) in the O&G industry through digital technologies. This paper proposes what companies and the government could do to increase the competitiveness of the local economy, diversify from O&G into high technological industries, and support industrial development through information and communication technologies (ICT).

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Divisions	Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Henley Business School > Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
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