The Red Queen in action: The longitudinal effects of capital investments in the mobile telecommunications sector

Banker, Rajiv D.; Cao, Zhanwei; Menon, Nirup M.; Mudambi, Ram

doi:10.1093/icc/dts036

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“…Furthermore, our study shows that technology advancement is not the only way to counteract competition. Our findings contribute to understanding of the effects of competition on innovation (Banker, Cao, Menon & Mudambi, 2013), an area in which few studies question the payoff of unceasing innovation investments (Sawhney & Nambisan, 2007). In addition, we highlight the type and extent of competitive conditions that lead a firm to choose to opt out of innovation, bolstering the view that a firm innovating at a pace much faster than that of its competitors can harm itself (Talay & Townsend, 2015).…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Our study offers several practical implications to firms and government agencies that deal with technology competition. First, managerial understanding of technology competition is largely characterized as Red Queen competition—firms continue to innovate to stay in the arms race, and firms that do not innovate will be retired by competition (Banker, Cao, Menon, & Mudambi, ; Barnett & Sorenson, ). This view of competition overlooks the question of whether gains from innovation are sufficient to justify the costs of racing.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Competition and innovation: The tango of the market and technology in the competitive landscape

Qian

Wang

2017

Manage Decis Econ

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Technology innovation can be a double‐edged sword in helping a firm to address competitive pressures. We explore the relationships among market competition, technology competition, and firms' advancement to a higher generation of production technology. Though market competition drives technology advancement as firms attempt to escape competition and technology competition also drives technology advancement as firms try to stay in the technology race, concurrent high market and technology competition lead a firm to defer advancement. We find supportive evidence with data on global flat panel display makers. Our findings shed light on how competition interacts with a firm's technology advancement decision and, in general, a firm's technology strategy.

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Competition and innovation: The tango of the market and technology in the competitive landscape

Qian

Wang

2017

Manage Decis Econ

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“…The opportunities and challenges stemming from boundary spanning are particularly relevant in knowledge‐intensive environments, where technological opportunities emerge rapidly; existing competencies quickly become obsolete; and intense rivalry and competition among industry participants prevail (D'Aveni et al, ). In such environments, for example, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals, spanning organizational and national boundaries to obtain novel knowledge is considered pivotal to an organization's competitive advantage (Banker et al, ; Bierly et al, ; Chesbrough et al, ). At the same time, managing knowledge across boundaries in those environments is extremely challenging as the underlying knowledge is characterized by novelty (e.g., rapid technological advancements or changing customer requirements), strong differences between the MNC and the potential source of knowledge (e.g., due to specialization or size effects) and dependencies (i.e., the MNC relies to some extent on external actors to ultimately make productive use of the external knowledge) (Carlile, ; Carlile and Rebentisch, ).…”

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How Does Performance Feedback Affect Boundary Spanning in Multinational Corporations? Insights from Technology Scouts

Klueter

Monteiro

2017

J Management Studies

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As much as prior research has shed light on the boundary‐spanning processes of global organizations and their (positive) impact on an MNC's performance, whether, when and how past performance ultimately shapes an MNC's boundary‐spanning activities remains an open question in management research. To tackle these questions, we examine the behaviour of technology scouts in global organizations who span organizational and national boundaries to tap into novel knowledge and span internal boundaries to present this knowledge to constituents inside the MNC. Drawing on the behavioural theory of the firm, we propose that the intensity of organizational boundary spanning, the likelihood of spanning national boundaries and the way technology scouts span internal boundaries to engage with members inside the organization are sensitive to how the MNC has performed relative to its aspirations. We support our theoretical expositions with insights gained from interviewing senior industry professionals with direct experience in technology scouting in MNCs.

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“…However, whether a cluster has the ability to translate innovation into the overall well-being of the cluster is questionable. Using the firm data in the mobile telecommunication services sector, Banker et al (2013) found that R&D investments positively relate to current and future productivity, but only to future profitability. Similarly, as noted earlier, the Detroit auto cluster may not be able to effectively absorb its own innovation output, and the strengthening of innovation capabilities could not effectively help reverse the decline of the Detroit auto cluster (Hannigan et al, 2015).…”

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Catch‐up via agglomeration: A study of township clusters

Jia

Tallman

et al. 2017

Global Strategy Journal

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Research Summary This study examines both the horizontal and the vertical dimensions of Chinese township industrial clusters in order to disentangle the determinants of catch‐up performance. By examining 87 township clusters in Jiangsu Province, we find that a cluster's competitive intensity partially mediates the relationship between cluster size and cluster performance and that the number of R&D centers and interfirm joint actions in a cluster positively affects a cluster's innovativeness which, in turn, contributes to cluster performance. Our study not only helps shed light on what strategic factors led Chinese manufacturing clusters to catch up in the global value chain, but our findings can be used as a basis for comparison with other types of clusters around the world. Managerial summary Despite the emergence of Chinese manufacturing industries over the past 30 years, little is known about how local clusters have helped Chinese firms catch up in global competition. By analyzing the performance of 87 township industrial clusters in Jiangsu Province, we find that the level of competition in a cluster mediates the relationship between cluster size and cluster performance and that a cluster's number of R&D centers and interfirm collaborations positively affect a cluster's innovativeness which, in turn, contributes to cluster performance. Our study contributes to a better understanding of cluster catch‐up strategies, helping compare and contrast the differences between clusters from developing countries and ones from developed countries. Copyright © 2016 Strategic Management Society.

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The Red Queen in action: The longitudinal effects of capital investments in the mobile telecommunications sector

Cited by 23 publications

References 48 publications

Competition and innovation: The tango of the market and technology in the competitive landscape

Competition and innovation: The tango of the market and technology in the competitive landscape

How Does Performance Feedback Affect Boundary Spanning in Multinational Corporations? Insights from Technology Scouts

Catch‐up via agglomeration: A study of township clusters

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