Innovation generation in upstream and downstream business relationships

The Effects of Supplier Involvement and Knowledge Protection on Product Innovation in Customer–Supplier Relationships: A Study of Global Automotive Suppliers in China

“…This study contributes to the existing knowledge in three ways. First, this study responds to the call for more empirical research on innovation in the context of supply chains (Roy and Sivakumar, 2010;Roy et al, 2004). Second, this study systematically integrates different theoretical lenses and empirically tests a model that relates drivers and outcomes of innovation generation for suppliers in interorganizational context.…”

Equilibrium of technology innovation in a three-echelon supply chain

“…The effects of customer acquisition and retention are mediated by customers' knowledge and firm's resource configuration, and the effect of customer knowledge and resource configuration will be amplified if a consistent strategy is implemented. Roy and Sivakumar (2010) addressed upstream and downstream relationships in the context of innovation generation, examined knowledge redundancy and relational embeddedness, and found knowledge redundancy between incremental and breakthrough innovation generation was stronger in upstream relationships than in downstream relationships. Additionally, they found the relationship of relational embeddedness in incremental innovation generation was stronger for upstream relationships, but the opposite was true for breakthrough innovation generation.…”

“…The structure of a three-echelon supply chain is a very typical also general model, which has a lot of research values in realistic operation. Research on the three-echelon supply chain is arising, Roy and Sivakumar (2010) said that firms can eas- * Corresponding author. Email: jiking@xmu.edu.cn ily implement upstream relationship knowledge exchange in product/service design modifications and innovations, but must further decipher downstream relationship knowledge exchange before including it in a design.…”

Supplier integration for new product developments : antecedents for supplier integration in modular product designs

“…In consequence, this paper examines critical aspects which foster innovative supplier contributions in collaborative actions between buyers and suppliers. Moreover, recent studies call for research on up-stream and down-stream relationships including supplier-supplier as well as supplier-buyer relationships (Choi & Krause, 2006;Roy & Sivakumar, 2010;Wu & Choi, 2005). In this manner, this study adds to supply chain literature by advancing the understanding of inter-supplier relationships in regards to supplier innovativeness at the OEM level.…”

“…Even though previous research has analyzed antecedents of supplier innovativeness in buyersupplier collaborations Wagner & Bode, 2014), limited attention has been paid to up-stream and down-stream interactions in supply chains and its influence on innovativeness (Roy & Sivakumar, 2010). In addition, recent studies call for more empirical studies to develop a deeper understanding of supplier-supplier-buyer relationships (Wu & Choi, 2005).…”