Abstract:
Buy back contracts have been one of the most common upstream contracts in the oil industry. This investment method allows the government to attract foreign capital and technical services and knowledge, while at the same time reducing the cost of foreign trade and increasing export capacity. On the other hand, Learning is one of the most important functions of technological collaboration, to which the success of collaborations will largely depend. This study, is a qualitative study with a case study strategy, attempted to determine the dimensions of learning in buy back contracts with a case study on the North Azadegan Field Development Contract. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and document review. Purposeful sampling was used to interview the experts in this project. Data analysis was done by thematic analysis and a qualitative research model was designed by MAXQDA. According to the findings of this study, the technological learning framework has five main themes including contract features, infrastructure, learner characteristics, external peer characteristics, and the nature of knowledge and technology. The findings also indicate that informal and informal factors have a direct and indirect impact on technological learning, and their attention is very important.
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05 Technological Learning Pattern in Petroleum Industry Buy-Back Contracts Case Study: Development of Azadegan North Field Maryam Nozari PhD Student, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran mn1193@gmail.
This research has been conducted with the aim of increasing the country's capability to make better use of current capacities, and given the researcher's information, for the first time, the possibility was provided to interview senior managers of the oil industry in the reciprocal sale contract drafting team, negotiators with the foreign party, senior managers of the North Azadegan field development project, project experts, and also several experts from the China National Petroleum Corporation 1, creating a combination of the views of both parties to the contract.
Roper and Love Based on my definition, the process of enhancing technological capability through the acquisition of external knowledge is called technological learning; companies active in developing countries, which are the newcomers, need to have a learning strategy for development and achieving catch-up 2 due to reasons such as the distance from technology and R&D resources and the distance from original markets (Hobday 1, 1995); this strategy demonstrates their ability to deal with threats and opportunities created in a competitive environment (Xie and Li-Hua 3, 2008).
Discussion and Conclusion Based on the findings and results of this research, which were obtained from the analysis of the North Azadegan field development contract as a case study, the factors affecting technological learning in foreign investment contracts in the oil industry consist of five main categories.
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