Impact of External Knowledge Inflow on Product and Process Innovation of Korean SMEs: Absorptive Capacity as a Mediator

Jeong, So Won; Chung, Jae‐Eun; Roh, Jung-Sim

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“…Namely, the heterogeneous knowledge obtained by knowledge search needs to be transferred into the internal knowledge base through a firm’s absorptive capacity. The vital role of AC between knowledge search and the innovative outcome has been proven by previous researches based on enterprise competence theory (Jeong et al , 2019; Aliasghar et al , 2019; Russo-Spena and Di Paola, 2019). This research merely provides complementary evidence from a large-scale sample of Chinese manufacturing firms.…”

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Impact of knowledge search on product and process innovation: mediating role of absorptive capacity and moderating role of IT capability

Hui

Ding

2020

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PurposeMore enterprises adopt open innovation by breaking technological or organizational boundaries to seek internal and external knowledge when they face a fiercely competitive environment, complex market demands, and increasingly rapid technological change. In this context, a knowledge search strategy is regarded as an effective means of obtaining inside and outside resources and an important way to break the innovation bottleneck. Moreover, information technology (IT) is deemed an important asset for sourcing knowledge, whereas absorptive capacity is seen as an indispensable ability for utilizing novel knowledge. Thus, this paper aims to test the role of knowledge search in open innovation and examine the mediating effect of absorptive capacity and the moderating effect of IT capability.Design/methodology/approachUsing a sample of 1,088 Chinese firms’ data collected by the World Bank in 2012, this paper employs logistic regression to test the hypotheses.FindingsThis study finds that local and boundary-spanning search strategies positively influence both product and process innovation, and absorptive capacity has a mediating role in the relationships between knowledge search and product and process innovation. Moreover, IT capability has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between local search and innovation performance; however, IT capability strengthens the relationship between boundary-spanning search and process innovation while weakens that between boundary-spanning search and product innovation.Originality/valueThis study explores the impact of different knowledge search behaviors on different types of innovation and probes the role of absorptive capacity and IT capability in mediating and moderating the above relationships. By drawing on knowledge-based theory and cognitive-developmental theory, this paper provides a novel perspective to explain the mechanism between knowledge search and innovation performance.

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Impact of knowledge search on product and process innovation: mediating role of absorptive capacity and moderating role of IT capability

Hui

Ding

2020

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“…According to table 1, previous studies found a positive relationship between inbound innovation and FP (Aliasghar et al, 2019;Jeong et al, 2019;Lazzarotti et al, 2017;Lorenz et al, 2020;Lu et al, 2021). As well, some scholars demonstrated that inbound and outbound innovation positively relates to FP (Burcharth et al, 2017;Hou et al, 2019;Wang & Xu, 2018;Zhou et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 85%

“…This study has identified the areas that the previous researchers considered in OI studies during the last seven years. Most of the scholars have focused on absorptive capacity (Aliasghar et al, 2019;Flor et al, 2017;Jeong et al, 2019), knowledge attributes (Wang & Jiang, 2020;Xie et al, 2018;Zhou et al, 2019), human resource practices (Burcharth et al, 2017;Natalicchio et al, 2018) and different capabilities like alliance management capability (Cheng & Shiu, 2020), functional capability (Lu et al, 2021), organizational capability (Cheng & Shiu, 2015) with OI and FP. Organizational learning (Wang & Xu, 2018) and innovativeness (Bahemia et al, 2017) have also gained much attention in previous studies.…”

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“…Further different capabilities such as relational capabilities (Bayona-Saez et al, 2017) and innovation capabilities (Roldan Bravo et al, 2017) need to be touched upon. Nevertheless, internal factors like organizational culture (Lu et al, 2021), intellectual capital (Jeong et al, 2019), informal communication and socialization (Oltra et al, 2018), internal R&D (Xie et al, 2018), network embeddedness (Shi & Zhang, 2018) and managerial roles (Portila et al, 2017) need to be analyzed. Moreover, external factors like public support (Hinteregger et al, 2019), and environmental turbulence (Shi & Zhang, 2018) need to be considered by future researchers.…”

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Impact of Open Innovation on Firm Performance: A Literature Review

Dilrukshi

Wickramasinghe

Edirisinghe

2022

S. Asian J. Bus. Insights

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This study investigates how the open innovation paradigm influences firm performance by synthesizing the existing literature on open innovation and firm performance. This study provides a better understanding of the concept of open innovation based on the current literature. The selection criteria were executed by the PRISMA article selection process linking open innovation and firm performance, published in peer-reviewed journals from 2015 to June 2021. The search string was tailored by Ebsco host, Elsevier, Emerald Insight and Sage publishers considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The descriptive method was used to analyze the selected articles. Numerous studies investigated that open innovation positively impacts firm performance, and few researchers demonstrated that open innovation has a U-shaped relationship with firm performance. Some studies discovered negative and mixed results on open innovation and firm performance. Due to the contradictory findings, more investigations on open innovation and firm performance are needed and this review produces knowledge for both practitioners and policymakers to implement their roles effectively. Especially these findings are significant for future researchers to identify the key areas that need to be investigated in the field of open innovation.

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“…Nevertheless, entrepreneurs can be inspired by these sources and implement innovations. This is important because research carried out in South Korea (which has a highly developed economy) confirms that the implementation of product and process innovations was influenced by customers, universities and government agencies (Jeong, Chung, Roh, 2019). In this context, it would be beneficial to repeat the study in a few years, so that further development in the use of sources can be reviewed.…”

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Innovation Activity and its Sources in Industry in the West Pomerania Province

Gorączkowska

2020

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia

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Research background: Innovation activities, especially the implementation of new products and processes are desirable phenomena in economic development. For this reason, phenomena that contribute to the implementation of new solutions in enterprises should be identified. These include sources of innovation activity. Purpose: The main purpose of the article is to identify those sources of innovation activity that significantly affect product and process innovation. Research methodology: The research of the impact of sources of ideas and information for innovation on the implementation of product and process innovations was conducted in 2018 for the period 2015–2017 in the West Pomerania Province. The study was representative. It was attended by 270 entrepreneurs whose business profile corresponds to section C PKD (Polish Business Classification) – manufacturing. Logit modeling was used in the study. Results: As a result of the analyses it was noticed that in the region the implementation of process innovations was significantly influenced by foreign R&D centres, suppliers (but only when entrepreneurs began to cooperate with them), as well as by conferences, fairs and exhibitions. In the case of product innovations, internal resources were included in this group. Novelty: In the analyzed region, no advanced econometric analysis of the impact of sources of innovative activity on product and process innovations that would be representative was carried out.

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Impact of External Knowledge Inflow on Product and Process Innovation of Korean SMEs: Absorptive Capacity as a Mediator

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Impact of knowledge search on product and process innovation: mediating role of absorptive capacity and moderating role of IT capability

Impact of knowledge search on product and process innovation: mediating role of absorptive capacity and moderating role of IT capability

Impact of Open Innovation on Firm Performance: A Literature Review

Innovation Activity and its Sources in Industry in the West Pomerania Province

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