Performance feedback, financial slack and the innovation behavior of firms

Lu, Lin-Hua; Wong, Poh Kam

doi:10.1007/s10490-018-9634-4

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“…March (1991) stated that "exploration" includes things captured by terms such as search, variation, risk taking, experimentation, play, flexibility, discovery, innovation. Previous studies have mainly used questionnaire-based approach (Chen et al, 2018;Xie & Gao, 2018;Wang et al, 2019;Wu & Peng, 2020) or patent-based (Yu & Chen, 2019;Xu et al, 2017;Lu & Pohkam, 2019) indicators to measure exploratory innovation. However, despite of potential heterogeneity, endogeneity and other problems (Ugur, 2013;Gatti et al, 2015), the questionnaire-based approach may also lack generalizability and applicability for a broad sample context (Uotila et al, 2009), such as the sample of publicly listed firms in this study.…”

Section: Variable Measurementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Customer Concentration and Exploratory Innovation: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Performance-Reducing Threats

Zhao

Wang

Wan

et al. 2021

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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A great deal of research attention has been devoted to studying the effects of customer concentration on firm strategic acts. Scholars have also investigated the relationship between customer concentration and firm innovation, but concluded inconsistent findings of such relationship. Furthermore, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. To address these concerns, this study decouples exploratory innovation from firm innovation and introduce performance-reducing threats perceived by the executives as the mediator. Based on the observations of China high-tech listed firms from 2011 to 2018, empirical results show that customer concentration has a U-shaped relationship with exploratory innovation, via the mediating effect of performance-reducing threats perceived by the executives.

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Section: Variable Measurementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Customer Concentration and Exploratory Innovation: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Performance-Reducing Threats

Zhao

Wang

Wan

et al. 2021

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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“…First, because the US is well-recognized as the largest single market in the world for IT products, foreign IT firms usually apply for US patent protection. Second, US patenting data have been widely accepted in the extant literature as a measure for benchmarking technology and innovative abilities of firms outside the US, including firms in emerging economies like Taiwan (Chen et al, 2012;Lu and Wong, 2019).…”

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The differentiated and ambidextrous influence of network flexibility on exploratory and exploitative partnership formations

Huang

2020

IJPDLM

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to provide evidence on the impact of network flexibility and its ambidextrous influence on a firm's exploratory and exploitative partnership selection.Design/methodology/approachThe authors develop our hypotheses based on the literature of network flexibility and draw on a sample of publicly listed firms in Taiwan semiconductor and optoelectronics industries. The authors collect our data from survey questionnaires and archival sources and examine our hypotheses by using the generalized linear model (GLM) approach.FindingsThe authors’ empirical findings show that configuration flexibility has a greater influence on exploratory partnerships, while manufacturing flexibility has a greater impact on exploitative partnerships. In addition, when firms are ambidextrous (i.e. have both types of flexibility), they are able to simultaneously obtain both exploratory and exploitative partnerships. The authors’ findings indicate that balancing network flexibility is critical when firms execute ambidextrous alliance strategies.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors’ use of survey data to measure network flexibility may limit our observations related to network evolution. In addition, the authors’ use of public annual reports to capture firm partnerships may cause us to ignore informal relationships between partners.Practical implicationsThe authors’ empirical findings suggest that the types of partnerships firms develop depend on which types of flexibility they possess. The results further suggest that decision makers have to find a way to develop a balanced strategy between network configuration and manufacturing flexibility when they would like to develop an ambidextrous alliance strategy.Originality/valueThe authors’ study advances the understanding in the literature on supply chain flexibility and its ambidexterity by connecting network flexibility and ambidextrous alliance strategy. The authors offer a guide to supply chain managers in the area of network design.

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“…Innovation in R&D can be a strategic weapon in which top companies employ definable strategies and practices to catalyze high levels of organic growth, support above average margins even in mature businesses, and separate themselves from the competition. Lu and Wong (2019) mentioned that building on Cyert and March's (1963) behavioral theory of the firm, the two researchers investigate how firms adjust their exploratory and exploitative innovation activities in response to performance feedback, and how this adjustment is moderated by the firms' financial slack. It was discovered that firms invest in a different mix of innovation activities when they receive positive versus negative performance feedback.…”

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The Innovation of E-Money via Ssru Smart Purse in Purchasing Products, Food and Beverages of Students at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University

Chayanon¹,

Srisorn²,

Punluekdej³

2020

IJQR

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Performance feedback, financial slack and the innovation behavior of firms

Cited by 66 publications

References 102 publications

Customer Concentration and Exploratory Innovation: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Performance-Reducing Threats

Customer Concentration and Exploratory Innovation: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Performance-Reducing Threats

The differentiated and ambidextrous influence of network flexibility on exploratory and exploitative partnership formations

The Innovation of E-Money via Ssru Smart Purse in Purchasing Products, Food and Beverages of Students at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University

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