The impact of local linkages, international linkages, and absorptive capacity on innovation for foreign firms operating in an emerging economy

Liao, Tsai-Ju; Yu, Chwo‐Ming Joseph

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“…Lin, Wu, Chang, Wang and Lee (2012) found that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between AP/Net partner technological distance and IP, and that this relationship is positively moderated by AC, especially when this distance is significant and the portfolio includes a high percentage of R & D alliances. An inverted U-shaped relationship was also found between the number of existing technological alliances in an AP/Net and IP (Vanhaverbeke, Belderbos, Duysters and Beerkens (2015), and between AP/Net diversity of the AP/Net and IP (Wuyts & Dutta, 2014;Yu, 2013).…”

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Leveraging firm innovation performance through alliance portfolios in emerging economies: the role of absorptive capacity

Macedo-Soares¹,

Paula²,

Mendonça³

2017

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Firms are increasingly engaging in alliance portfolios/networks -AP/Nets -to leverage their innovation performance -IP -and thus boost their competitiveness. Most studies, with a few exceptions especially from emerging countries, found a positive relationship between AP/Net and IP, depending on portfolio characteristics and firm absorptive capacity -AC. This article undertakes an empirical investigation of the AP/Net -IP relationship and AC´s potentially moderating role in this relationship in an emerging country: Brazil. Statistical testing of hypotheses regarding these relationships, and AC´s role, corroborated the exceptions. However, it confirmed how important it is that firms in an emerging country ensure a high level of AC to mitigate the negative effects of AP/Net diversity on IP. Some managerial and policy implications were also formulated.

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“…Only a few investigate developing/emerging economies, mainly in Asia (e.g. Tsai, 2009;Lião & Yu, 2013;Yu, 2013), with hardly any concentrating on Latin America (exceptions are García Fernández, Sánchez Limón, & Sevilla Morales, 2012;Gomez, Daim & Robledo, 2014).…”

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Leveraging firm innovation performance through alliance portfolios in emerging economies: the role of absorptive capacity

Macedo-Soares¹,

Paula²,

Mendonça³

2017

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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“…It thus relates to all key AP/Net dimensions: i) AP/Net structure, because of the heterogeneity and complexity associated with diversity; ii) AP/ Net composition, because of the diverse partner types/resources; iii) AP/Net linkage modalities because of the different alliance types. Note that Wuyts and Dutta (2014), that investigate AP technological diversity, and Lião and Yu (2013), that also examine geographic diversity, stress the importance of institutional diversity of firm´s multiple linkages, especially when these involve emerging countries.…”

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“…On the other hand, Tsai (2009), Yu (2013 and Lião and Yu (2013) are all concerned with this characteristic.…”

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Absorptive Capacity, Alliance Portfolios and Innovation Performance: An Analytical Model Based on Bibliographic Research

Macedo-Soares

Barboza

Paula

2016

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Abstract:The objective of this article is to present a model for analysing the role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between strategic alliance portfolios and innovation performance based on the results of bibliographic research on the subject published between 2000 and 2015. The research was carried out in three stages, involving both quantitative -bibliometric and bibliographic coupling -and qualitative content analyses. AP management capabilities were found to have a fundamental moderating role in the AP-IP relationship, and amongst these capabilities AC was highlighted by several authors. However, its role was found to vary according to AP characteristics, notably AP diversity -functional, geographic and institutional, but also centrality, size, stability and volume of resources, alliance and partner types as well as country type: emerging versus developed economies. This research formed the basis for the development of the model and the formulation of some propositions that focused on emerging countries.

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“…Tacit or codified knowledge with lower transmission costs flows between actors within the same sector (Saxenian, 1994). This knowledge exchange is embedded within the labor mobility of skilled workers (Edler, Fier, & Grimpe, 2011), collaborative R&D activities (Gross, 2013;Liao and Yu, 2013) or even via enhanced communications (Storper and Venables, 2004). Second, industrial localization may lead to a less competitive, more monopolistic environment .…”

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Firm ownership, industrial structure, and regional innovation performance in China's provinces

Li¹,

Sutherland²,

Ning³

et al. 2014

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. provinces. Specifically, we explore how the extent of specialization and diversification in regional industrial structures at the province level foster both MAR and Jacobs spillovers, as well as how foreign and state ownership influence regional innovation. We find: (i) China's regional innovation systems benefit from Jacobs but not MAR externalities, with the former spurring higher quality innovation in the form of increased invention patenting; (ii) state owned enterprises and foreign invested enterprises advance local innovation, with the latter again fostering higher quality innovation; (iii) a convergence towards the combination of low specialization and high diversity in provincial industry is taking place between China's more developed inland coastal provinces and less developed inland provinces. Implications and suggestions for policy-making and future research are discussed.

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The impact of local linkages, international linkages, and absorptive capacity on innovation for foreign firms operating in an emerging economy

Cited by 30 publications

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Leveraging firm innovation performance through alliance portfolios in emerging economies: the role of absorptive capacity

Leveraging firm innovation performance through alliance portfolios in emerging economies: the role of absorptive capacity

Absorptive Capacity, Alliance Portfolios and Innovation Performance: An Analytical Model Based on Bibliographic Research

Firm ownership, industrial structure, and regional innovation performance in China's provinces

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