This research attempts to highlight the role of organizational routines in the emergence and evolution of technological innovation in the empirical context of international R&D alliances. The ZigBee R&D Alliance formed by a Japanese and a Taiwanese partner illustrated how inter-organizational routines as a mean toward strategic renewals when developing their dynamic capabilities of technological innovation. Based on this case-study, this research develops two propositions that the variety-inducing routines facilitate the emergence of technological innovation, especially for the learning partners in an R&D alliance; and that the boundary spanners facilitate the development of the variety-inducing routines, especially for an international alliances.
