Enhancing innovation through learning: the roles of market orientation and interorganisational knowledge stores

Fang, Shyh-Rong; Chou, Chia-Hui; Yang, Shu-Mi; Ou, Chueh-Chu

doi:10.1080/09537325.2012.655414

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“…Such findings improved the understanding of how responsive and proactive modes of market orientation can affect incremental and radical innovation (to which exploitation and exploration innovation competences are required). Fang et al (2012) corroborate the positive effect of market orientation (responsive-proactive) on exploitation and exploration innovation activities. Consequently, the hypotheses are:…”

Section: Market Orientation and Innovation Competenciessupporting

confidence: 72%

“…Baker and Sinkula (1999) give empirical support to the idea that a firm's market orientation enhances organisational innovativeness and new product success. The ability to gather and use information about the present and the future is what enables market orientation to relate and enhance exploitative as well as explorative innovation (Fang et al , 2012). This study sees the market as a driving force behind innovation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A firm's ability to gather and to use information about the present and the future is what relates market orientation to exploitation and exploration of innovation (Fang et al , 2012). More precisely, market orientation contributes knowledge to innovation that allows the firm to make appropriate use of it (Fang et al , 2012), such as to innovate in consistently differentiated and novel ways.…”

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Effects of absorptive capacity and innovation spillover on manufacturing flexibility

Pinheiro

Lages²,

Silva

et al. 2021

IJPPM

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PurposeShifting demand and ever-shorter production cycles pressure manufacturing flexibility. Although the literature has established the positive effect of the firm's absorptive capacity on manufacturing flexibility, the separate role of the innovation competencies of exploitation and exploration in such a relationship is still under-investigated. In this study, the authors examine how these competencies affect manufacturing flexibility.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use survey data from 370 manufacturing firms and analyze them using covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB–SEM).FindingsThe results indicate that absorptive capacity has a strong, positive and direct effect on exploitative and exploratory innovation competencies, proactive and responsive market orientations, and manufacturing flexibility. The authors’ findings also demonstrate that the exploitative innovation competencies mediate the relation between responsive market orientation and manufacturing flexibility. Essentially, these exploitative innovation competencies produce a direct positive effect on manufacturing flexibility while simultaneously being a vehicle for absorptive capacity's indirect effects on it. An exploration innovation strategy does not significantly affect manufacturing flexibility.Originality/valueThis study contributes by combining key strategic features of firms with manufacturing flexibility, while providing new empirical evidence of the mediation of the exploitative innovation competencies in the relation between responsive market orientation and manufacturing flexibility.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Effects of absorptive capacity and innovation spillover on manufacturing flexibility

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Lages²,

Silva

et al. 2021

IJPPM

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“…A second and broader group of works has shown a positive relationship between exploitation and exploration (e.g., Auh & Menguc, 2005; Bierly et al, 2009; Clausen et al, 2013; Fang et al, 2012; Im & Rai, 2008; Li & Huang, 2013; Rothaermel & Deeds, 2004), suggesting that firms can balance both of them. That is, they take advantage of stored knowledge and foster continuous improvements to achieve short-term performance and, at the same time, can develop new knowledge and technologies to improve their long-term performance (Benner & Tushman, 2003; Bierly et al, 2009; Lavie et al, 2011; Li et al, 2008).…”

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Factors affecting the effect of exploitation and exploration on performance: A meta-analysis

Marín-Idárraga

González

Cabello‐Medina

2020

BRQ Business Research Quarterly

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From a contingency view, we aim to contribute to a better understanding of how exploitation and exploration influence performance. By conducting a meta-analysis, we aim to answer the following research question: How do substantive moderators (slack resources, organizational structure, inter-organizational relationships, competitive intensity, and environmental dynamism), extrinsic moderators (region, size, and sector) and methodological moderators (data sources and performance measurement) affect the impact of exploitation and exploration on performance? The results of the meta-analysis, including 328 correlations, 102 studies, and a sample of 41,298 cases, suggest that the influence of exploitation and exploration on performance depends on the presence of the moderating factors included in our analysis. Furthermore, some of these factors are relevant for explaining a better performance of exploitation versus exploration, while other moderators do not determine a different effect of exploitation and exploration on performance. JEL CLASSIFICATION M10; M19; O3

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“…Some authors make the distinction between monodextrous capability (to pursue either exploration or exploitation) and ambidextrous capability (capability to pursue simultaneously exploration and exploitation). In behavioural and cognitive studies ambidexterity is related to exploratory and exploitative ways of learning (Kostopoulos and Bozionelos, 2011), integrating knowledge from different sources to foster learning capabilities (Beckman, 2006, Lin et al, 2013, Fang et al, 2012. Examples of learning capabilities related to ambidexterity are absorptive capacity (Hoang andRothaermel, 2010, Andriopoulos andLewis, 2009), perspective taking (Litchfield and Gentry, 2010), and ambidextrous learning (Kang andSnell, 2009, Lee andHuang, 2012).…”

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Ambidexterity and mobile hubs as the interfaces for orchestrating multi-level innovation networks and fostering capabilities in innovation processes: evidence from agricultural netchains in Sub-Saharan Africa

Omta¹,

Trienekens²,

Perdomo³

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Goldin and Winters, 1992). Structural adjustment policies often tied aid to the privatisation of the delivery of services in sub-Saharan Africa. With a weak private sector many nongovernmental organisations-both international and local-were founded or expanded to fill the gap (Bratton, 1989). Systems of innovation therefore changed from centralised systems of national agricultural research institutions and extension services to a variety of service providers, with the entry of many new research and development stakeholders (Anandajayasekeram, 2011). In Uganda for instance, decentralisation reform has transferred the coordination of developmental projects from central to local governments. The former top-down approach in Uganda has changed to a bottom-up approach that has to be coordinated with community international and even virtually, and within value chains to form 'netchains' (Lazzarini et al., 2001). Netchains include farmers, researchers, traders, transporters, processors, finance institutions, international non-governmental organisations. 1.2 Innovation networks tackling food insecurity and poverty of family farmers in sub-Saharan Africa Over the past decade there have been an increasing number of initiatives that are testing strategies or intervention approaches to enhance farmers' capabilities (See case studies of CFS, 2015). These initiatives involve different configurations and levels of innovation networks, and also aim to foster some capabilities of family farms. Some initiatives seek to develop organisational and knowledge capabilities like in Farmer Field School networks, or Village Information and Communication Centers (Pérez Perdomo et al., 2009), in which farmers have the opportunity of learning by doing and sharing knowledge. In these initiatives farmers join "communities of practice" (de Jager et al., 2009, Pérez Perdomo et al., 2009, Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) as part of local small innovation networks. Chapter 1 5 Initiatives based on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that combine information systems using internet platforms and mobile phones, might foster information and communication capabilities of farmers to share market information and prices of commodities. Mobile phones are facilitating linkages of farmers to local, national and international markets. In the Philippines, Uganda, South Africa and Kenya 1 farmers get information by voice and text messages on markets and prices, daily or seasonal weather forecasts, the production of pesticides and even use internet for sending money to relatives. These new ways of sharing knowledge and social interaction mediated by the use of ICTs facilitate more participative and open approaches for fostering capabilities for innovation. While an increasing number of farmers have access to ICTs due to ubiquity of media and access to the technology, there are still factors that limit their use; such as a limited knowledge in the use of ICTs, costs of services of internet, and language limitations (Pérez Perdomo, 2003, Parkinso...

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Enhancing innovation through learning: the roles of market orientation and interorganisational knowledge stores

Cited by 10 publications

References 47 publications

Effects of absorptive capacity and innovation spillover on manufacturing flexibility

Effects of absorptive capacity and innovation spillover on manufacturing flexibility

Factors affecting the effect of exploitation and exploration on performance: A meta-analysis

Ambidexterity and mobile hubs as the interfaces for orchestrating multi-level innovation networks and fostering capabilities in innovation processes: evidence from agricultural netchains in Sub-Saharan Africa

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