Catch‐up through Collaborative Innovation: Evidence from China

Liu, Yang; Ying, Ying; Wu, Xiaojie

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“…When firms collaborate with each other, the risks of knowledge leakage are high and consequently firms are reluctant to share their core knowledge. When the government can provide a sound law system and effective intellectual property protection policies, opportunistic behavior will be reduced and the trust between firms and their partners will be enhanced (Liu et al, 2017), and then the efficiency of knowledge transfer will also be enhanced. Therefore, the relationship will be stronger when government institutional support is high than when it is low.…”

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Effects of open innovation strategies on innovation performance of SMEs: evidence from China

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Zhang

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between two types of open innovation (OI) strategies (OI breadth and depth) and innovation performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China. The study examines how firms’ absorptive capacity and government institutional support affect these relationships. Design/methodology/approach Survey data from 236 manufacturing SMEs in China were used to test the proposed model using hierarchical regression analysis. Findings The results show that both OI breadth and depth are positively related to innovation performance of SMEs. Moreover, this study finds that realized absorptive capacity serves as a mediator in the relationships between OI breadth and depth and innovation performance. The potential absorptive capacity and government institutional support moderate the relationship between OI breadth and innovation performance. Originality/value The effectiveness of OI strategies is significantly different among SMEs. One possible explanation is that SMEs adopt different types of OI strategies. Another is that a firm’s absorptive capacity and government institutional support may influence the effectiveness of OI. This study integrates these two possible reasons by investigating the effect of the interplay between different OI strategies, absorptive capacity and government institutional support on SMEs’ innovation performance. This study enriches the research on the relationships between OI strategies and innovation performance of SMEs in the Chinese context.

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Effects of open innovation strategies on innovation performance of SMEs: evidence from China

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“…Network relations help to reduce uncertainty and enhance the learning of firms, as well as trust building. For example, Liu, Ying, and Wu () find an inverse U–shaped relationship between academic or industrial collaboration intensity and innovation performance for Chinese firms. Interorganizational flows of knowledge within and across regions is also a source of value creation and promotes regional growth (Huggins & Thompson, ).…”

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Dynamic Embeddedness in Chinese Firm Internationalization

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This article presents a multilevel framework to analyze the motivations and location choices of Chinese OFDIs. We contribute to theory‐integration on Chinese OFDI flows and patterns by suggesting a framework that combines country‐, industry‐ and firm‐level analyses and by reflecting aspects from the resource‐based view (firm‐specific advantages), institutional‐based view (push/pull home‐ and host‐country factors), and network‐based view (network relations). We also explicitly incorporate “time” as a variable into our framework by introducing and explaining the concept of dynamic embeddedness as an interaction dimension to reflect the inherent dynamics on all levels and actors. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…Firms in emerging market are known to suffer from the liabilities of newness, smallness and foreignness (Zaheer, 1995). Developments in external knowledge search research suggest that firms in emerging market eager to enter the international market can rely on network advantage to overcome these challenges (Liu et al , 2017). Indeed, external knowledge search has played so important role in internationalization that when firms underestimate such searching process they are considered to fall into a disadvantage situation (Johanson and Vahlne, 2009; Liu and Wei, 2013).…”

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Balancing local and international knowledge search for internationalization of emerging economy multinationals

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2018

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Purpose Internationalization has emerged as a vital catch-up strategy for firms in emerging markets. Although external knowledge search has been widely acknowledged as an important way within the internationalization process, there appear to be opposing views as to whether local or international knowledge search contributes more for firms’ internationalization. This paper aims to integrate organizational ambidexterity and external knowledge search theory to define the concept of external knowledge search ambidexterity and empirically test the impact of the balance dimension of external knowledge search ambidexterity and combined dimension of external knowledge search ambidexterity on internationalization and the moderating effect of organizational slack and environmental munificence. Design/methodology/approach Survey. Findings Based on survey data of 219 Chinese manufacturing firms, the authors find that both relative balance and combined dimensions of external knowledge search ambidexterity are positively associated with internationalization. Organizational slack and environmental munificence both negatively moderate the relationship between balance dimension of external knowledge search ambidexterity and internationalization, both positively moderate the relationship between combined dimension of external knowledge search ambidexterity and internationalization. Practical implications It is essential for managers to take different external knowledge sources into consideration, so as to both maximize revenues and profits from advanced technological knowledge and foreign marketing knowledge in foreign markets and geographic proximity advantages in local market, while minimizing the risks of lacking of adaptive capacity for lacking of knowledge about international markets and cost of coordination and communication because of long geographical distance and cultural difference. Originality/value The findings help us better understand the knowledge seeking activities of emerging economy multinationals by proposing that the balance and combination of local and international knowledge search both can promote internationalization, especially on the background of China. The results also enrich the organizational ambidexterity research and extend it to external knowledge search field.

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Catch‐up through Collaborative Innovation: Evidence from China

Cited by 20 publications

References 70 publications

Effects of open innovation strategies on innovation performance of SMEs: evidence from China

Effects of open innovation strategies on innovation performance of SMEs: evidence from China

Dynamic Embeddedness in Chinese Firm Internationalization

Balancing local and international knowledge search for internationalization of emerging economy multinationals

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