Corporate technology portfolios and R&amp;D performance measures: a study of technology intensive firms

Lin, Bou‐Wen; Chen, Ja‐Shen

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9310.2005.00380.x

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“…According to Dicle and Kose [19], deliberate and continuous learning adds flexibility to an organisation's effort to generate and commercialise new products. The learning orientation is an organisational process of creating customer-and competitor-related knowledge, and determining the method of collecting, sharing and interpreting the obtained knowledge [20,21]. A welldesigned organisational learning orientation -supported by learning objectives, a continuous commitment of resources, and a culture of information-sharing -serves its purpose well.…”

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Linking Culture, Organizational Learning Orientation and Product Innovation Performnace: The Case of Ethiopian Manufacturing Firms

Beyene

Shi²,

Wu³

2016

SAJIE

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Using formal survey data from textile and leather product manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, we investigate how the current national cultural setup (power distance, collectivism, masculinity and uncertainty avoidance) is affecting organizational learning, orientation and product innovation performance. Further, we assess the moderating role of sector and ownership structure on the interrelationship. The result demonstrates that the current national culture setup is negatively affecting the learning and innovation activities of the firms in the country. It also shows that while sector type is neutral, ownership type significantly affects the interrelationship among culture, learning orientation and product innovation performance. OPSOMMINGDeur die gebruik van peilingdata van tekstiel-en leerproduk vervaardigers in Etiopië word die invloed van die huidige nasionale kulturele milieu (dit sluit die afstand tot krag, kollektivisme, manlikheid en onsekerheidsvermyding) op die organisatoriese leer, oriëntasie en produkinnovasie bestudeer. Verder word die matigende rol van sektortipe en eienaarskapstruktuur op die onderlinge verhoudinge beoordeel. Die resultaat toon dat die huidige nasionale kulturele milieu die leer-en innovasieaktiwiteite negatief beïnvloed. Dit toon ook dat, terwyl die sektortipe nie 'n noemenswaardige invloed het nie, die eienaarskapstruktuur die onderlinge verhouding tussen kultuur, leeroriëntasie en produkinnovasie daadwerklik beïnvloed. INTRODUCTIONIn this era of globalisation, a firm's profitability and survival in the international market is entirely dependent on continuous innovation [1]. In every economy, organisations are being forced -by intense competition, technological change, and much-reduced product lifecycles -to look for new and better ways of doing business. The generation and development of new marketable products has long been considered a key strategic advantage for an organisation's survival and its ability to outperform its competition. However, according to Martin de Castro [2], continuous innovation is impossible without a deliberate and continuous commitment to organisational learning. The effective generation, development, and commercialisation of new products is possible only if firms acquire, interpret and disseminate reliable customer, competitor and technology-related information.From the perspective of contingency theory, the role of socio-economic and socio-cultural factors in the business operations of organisations has attracted the attention of managers and academics [3]. Consequently, the role of a country's cultural factors in the learning and innovation activity of the manufacturing firms operating within it has been the focus of much research ([4, 5]). A national culture is a collective mindset that reflects the behaviour, attitudes and norms of a society and influences the perceptions, expectations, and motivation of its members [6,7].

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Section: Organisational Learning Orientation and Product Innovation Pmentioning

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Linking Culture, Organizational Learning Orientation and Product Innovation Performnace: The Case of Ethiopian Manufacturing Firms

Beyene

Shi²,

Wu³

2016

SAJIE

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“…On the other hand, researchers acknowledge that the relationship between technological diversification and performance is not linear as the technological diversification increases, but rather, curvilinear of inverted-U, because of the correlation between the synergy among resources and the management cost [16,[34][35][36]. It is also found that a firm has the features of conditional opposition by the moderators such as the firm's absorptive capacity, technological relatedness, technological capabilities, and firm's size [5,[37][38][39].…”

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“…We also deal with how to modify strategies dynamically. such as the firm's absorptive capacity, technological relatedness, technological capabilities, and firm's size [5,[37][38][39]. One of the possible explanations for why there is no clear consensus on this topic is that insufficient consideration has been given to two important factors.…”

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Dynamic Technological Diversification and Its Impact on Firms’ Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Korean IT Firms

2017

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Abstract:This paper aims to analyze the influence of the technological diversification on a firm's innovation capabilities and investigates the effect of various strategies on the firm's financial performance in a technology-oriented environment. We employ the entropy measurement to calculate technological diversification with 2095 patents, which are applied from years 2009 to 2011 by 507 firms that have participated in Korean government Information Technology (IT) Research and Development (R&D) supporting programs. In our framework, a firm should not diversify among the related technology fields, but should concentrate on a specific technology to reinforce the competitive advantage. However, in the case of the firms with sufficient resources, increasing technological diversification among the unrelated technology fields plays a key role on the firms' performance. Furthermore, the degree of the technological diversification should be adjusted dynamically in compliance with the change of a firm's innovation capabilities. Therefore, these results suggest that a firm should develop differentiated competitiveness through specialization by prioritizing its capabilities, and then exploit unrelated technological diversification to search for new opportunities.

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“…Furthermore, although it is widely agreed that technological innovation is the most powerful source of competitive advantage, the value created by skyrocketing R&D expenditures is sometimes seriously challenged (Mank and Nystrom, 2001). Technology-based firms often struggle for the effectiveness and efficiency of their R&D functions (Lin & Chen, 2005).…”

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Can locally-recruited R&D personnel significantly contribute to multinational subsidiary innovation in an emerging economy?

Wang

Liu

2013

International Business Review

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This paper assesses the role of locally-recruited R&D personnel relative to their expatriate counterparts as regards innovation in multinational subsidiariesin an emerging economy. Two hypotheses are developed based on a network approach to multinational enterprises in an emerging economy setting, and tested on a sample of 317 multinational subsidiaries in China.Our results indicate that locally-recruited R&D personnel have played a limited role in innovation within multinational subsidiaries. While making a marginally significant contribution to R&D output due to their direct supply of technological knowledge, locally-recruited R&D personnel are unable to translate subsidiary R&D expenditure into successful patent applications probably because of their lack of technology management skills. In comparison, R&D expatriates significantly contribute to multinational subsidiary R&R output in both dimensions.

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Corporate technology portfolios and R&D performance measures: a study of technology intensive firms

Cited by 126 publications

References 28 publications

Linking Culture, Organizational Learning Orientation and Product Innovation Performnace: The Case of Ethiopian Manufacturing Firms

Linking Culture, Organizational Learning Orientation and Product Innovation Performnace: The Case of Ethiopian Manufacturing Firms

Dynamic Technological Diversification and Its Impact on Firms’ Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Korean IT Firms

Can locally-recruited R&D personnel significantly contribute to multinational subsidiary innovation in an emerging economy?

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