Exploring open search strategies and perceived innovation performance from the perspective of inter‐organizational knowledge flows

Chiang, Yu Hsien; Hung, Kuang‐Peng

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9310.2010.00588.x

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“…Previous literature has suggested depth and breadth as two important dimensions of external technology acquisition, and a variety of studies examine both depth and breadth simultaneously (Laursen and Salter 2006;Chiang and Hung 2010). However, due to the limitation of the available data, our research could not analyse the effect of the depth of external technology acquisition.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 70%

External technology acquisition: a double-edged sword

Kang

2015

Asian Journal of Technology Innovation

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Firms are known to actively utilise external technology acquisition to update and extend their technological knowledge base. Although external technology acquisition has various advantages, it should be considered as a double-edged sword as it also has some inherent negative aspects. This study examines the role of external technology acquisition to investigate whether external technology acquisition is complementary or substitutive to internal R&D activities in creating innovation. The results show that external technology acquisition has an inverted U-shaped relationship with subsequent technology innovation performance, and that is not complementary to internal R&D activities. We thus confirm that external technology acquisition has to be seen as a double-edged sword and that managers need to be aware of the potentially negative effects of strong diversity of the firm's external technology acquisition sources on internal R&D and subsequent innovation performance.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 70%

External technology acquisition: a double-edged sword

Kang

2015

Asian Journal of Technology Innovation

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“…The application of these two types of external learning in the firm has propelled innovation research, due to the important role that absorptive capability plays in obtaining incremental and radical innovation performance (e.g., Bierly et al, 2009;Lichtenthaler, 2009). Chiang and Hung (2010) argue that intensively accessing knowledge from a limited number of external channels can facilitate the innovating firm's incremental innovation performance, whereas accessing knowledge from a broad range of external channels can enhance the innovating firm's radical innovation performance. Similarly, studies such as that by Subramaniam and Youndt (2005) find that broader horizons with respect to knowledge sources are related to innovation success and radical innovation performance, respectively.…”

Section: Absorptive Capability and Innovation Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Does incremental and radical innovation performance depend on different types of knowledge accumulation capabilities and organizational size?

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Acknowledgement: The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Plan for R&D of Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ref. ECO2009-12522). HIGHLIGHTSØ Incremental innovation performance is positively affected by internal knowledge creation capability and absorptive capability.Ø Absorptive capability affects radical innovation performance positively.Ø Size has a direct positive effect on incremental innovation performance.Ø Size has a direct positive effect on internal knowledge creation capability. HOW DOES ORGANIZATIONAL SIZE IMPACT ON KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATION CAPABILITIES AND INCREMENTAL VERSUS RADICAL INNOVATION PERFORMANCE?ABSTRACT While prior studies recognise the importance of knowledge accumulation capabilities in innovation performance, current research has still failed to empirically identify its role with regard to different types of innovation performance. The objective of this paper is to address this knowledge gap and to explore the relationships between internal knowledge creation and absorptive capabilities, and radical and incremental innovation performance. The study also contributes to analyzing the complex effect that organizational size has in the whole innovation process, influencing its antecedents (internal knowledge creation capability and absorptive capability) as well as its outputs (incremental and radical innovation performance), as the literature has produced inconsistent results and the issue is subject to continuing debate. This study demonstrates that incremental innovation performance is positively affected by both knowledge accumulation capabilities and size. However, results show that only absorptive capability has a positive direct effect on radical innovation performance, whereas size has a negative non-significant effect on it. The effect of size on knowledge accumulation capabilities also turns out to be mixed. It appears to increase internal knowledge creation capability, but it does not affect the absorption of new external knowledge, and thus does not help to develop radical innovations.

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“…Technological resources developed externally can be sourced in by, for instance, licensing, merger and acquisitions (M&A), or spillover effects Leiponen & Helfat, 2010). While search depth denotes how intensively and repeatedly a firm exploits external technological resources, search breadth represents how broadly a firm explores various domains of external technologies (Chiang & Hung, 2010). The reason why this study only focuses on the breadth instead of depth is two-fold: (1) Chinese industrial R&D has been left in a lagging position behind those in the Western countries since the 1980s and 1990s (Xue, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%