The impact of internal and external technology sourcing on innovation performance: a review and research agenda

Gnekpe, Christian; Coeurderoy, Régis

doi:10.1504/ijtm.2017.082355

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“…In competitive markets, those firms over perform who have the international technology for their operational activities [35]. Access to external technology is not only essential for new product development, but also empowers innovation performance [36]. Therefore, domestic firms try to capture foreign technology for their internal process in terms of product development, structure and skills.…”

Section: International Technology and Sustainable Competitive Performmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do International Capabilities and Resources Configure Firm’s Sustainable Competitive Performance? Research within Pakistani SMEs

Ullah

Khattak

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Market conditions in emerging economies are often reported as less stable and volatile. The business sector, especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies, face several shortcomings including lack of resources, lack of finance, lack of support and lack of human skills, etc. Hence, they look to international support and resources to survive in a long run in the dynamic markets. This research examines the role of international finance, international technology, international experience and international network in SME firms’ Sustainable Competitive Performance (SCP) in Pakistan. SMEs are a major source of employment and value creation and, therefore, are very relevant to Pakistan economic and social development and improved sustainability. Hypotheses were tested on the data set collected from 304 emerging SMEs. After Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was applied in Analysis of a Moment Structures (AMOS), the results indicate that international finance, international experience and international network significantly positively contribute to SCP, but international technology is not a significant predictor of SCP. This research recommends top managers and policy makers to give enough attention to the particular international resources and capabilities in order to configure their firm survival in the turbulent market.

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Section: International Technology and Sustainable Competitive Performmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do International Capabilities and Resources Configure Firm’s Sustainable Competitive Performance? Research within Pakistani SMEs

Ullah

Khattak

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…Additionally, internal R&D leads to increased external sourcing of knowledge as these internal efforts provide firms with the prior technological knowledge that is required to identify and absorb knowledge from external partners (Kostopoulos et al 2011;Lichtenthaler 2010). Existing internal R&D enhances this ability and thus positively impacts the external sourcing of knowledge (Gnekpe and Coeurderoy 2017). Fabrizio (2009) argues that a firm's innovation performance depends on its internal knowledge and abilities to assess and integrate external knowledge.…”

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Firm specific determinants of open innovation in European SMEs

Priyadarshini

Gao

O’Gorman

2021

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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To manage the changing innovation landscape a key strategic decision for owner-managers of SMEs is the extent to which they adopt open innovation. Extant research however has tended to study open innovation processes in terms of a binary distinctioneither open or closed. The purpose of this paper is to move beyond this dichotomous framing and identify the extent of openness in the innovation processes of SMEs in Europe. Furthermore, the study explores the association between internal firm-specific factors related to the capabilities and strategies of the firm and open innovation in SMEs. This study explores if (a) innovation objectives, (b) innovation activities, and (c) innovation expenditures, influence the extent of openness in the innovation process in SMEs. Drawing on data from the 6 th Community Innovation Survey (CIS) of 9,949 SMEs from nine European countries, hypotheses are tested using hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The study contributes to the literature by showing that the extent of openness in the innovation process is low for European SMEs. SMEs are more likely to be characterised by higher levels of openness in their innovation if they prioritise product/process innovation objectives, conduct internal R&D, purchase/license external knowledge, and commitment more financial resources to innovation. RÉSUMÉ Pour g erer l' evolution du paysage de l'innovation, une d ecision strat egique cl e pour les propri etaires et dirigeants de PME consiste a d eterminer dans quelle mesure ils adoptent l'innovation ouverte. Cependant, les recherches existantes ont eu tendance a se concentrer sur les processus d'innovation ouverte en termes de distinction binairesoit ouverte, soit ferm ee. L'objectif de cet article est de d epasser ce cadre dichotomique et d'identifier le degr e d'ouverture des processus d'innovation dans les PME en Europe. En outre, l' etude explore l'association entre les facteurs internes sp ecifiques aux entreprises, li es aux capacit es et aux strat egies de l'entreprise et a l'innovation ouverte dans les PME. Cette etude examine si (a) les objectifs d'innovation, (b) les ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…About the first question, prior studies have investigated the effects of several single sourcing strategies, such as strategic alliance (Schilling and Steensma, 2001;Lavie, 2007;Rothaermel and Deeds, 2006;Hoang and Rothaermel, 2005;Rothaermel and Deeds, 2004;Gnekpe and Coeurderoy, 2017), licensing (Huston and Sakkab, 2006;Tsai and Wang, 2008;Lane and Probert, 2007;Malik, 2011) and corporate venture capital (CVC) investment (Dushnitsky and Lenox, 2005;Lee and Kang, 2015;Chang et al, 2009) and factors that compel a firm towards using each method of sourcing, e.g. firm size, cost and uncertainty of the innovation, industry intensity of innovation (Veugelers and Cassiman, 1999), hostile and dynamic environment (Zahra, 1996), firm's competencies (Narula, 2001;Riccobono et al, 2015), strategic importance of the technology (Narula, 2001), technology life cycle (Narula, 2001;Stolwijk et al, 2012;Cantarello et al, 2011), perceived threat of opportunism and commercial failure, chance of achieving sustainable competitive advantage (Steensma and Corley, 2001) and firm's financial capability (Lungeanu et al, 2016).…”

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How to balance your technology sourcing portfolio in a developing country

Shekarchian

Albadvi

2019

JSTPM

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Purpose To gain the highest performance in technological efforts, firms have to balance their technology sourcing portfolio, i.e. they have to decide how to source the required technology and whom to source from. This paper aims to tackle the issue by investigating the factors affecting the technology sourcing portfolio composition and the effect of the portfolio diversity on the performance outcome. Design/methodology/approach An inductive multiple case study was performed. Data of four biopharmaceutical producer firms in the period of 1998-2017 were collected. To expand the under study time span, the under study firms were all chosen from the first-comer ones. They entered the NBP arena in the 1998-2008 period, i.e. the period in which Iranian NBP industry was in its formation stage. Findings This paper detects the affecting technology-, firm-, industry- and national level factors in Iran biopharmaceutical industry and analyses their influencing mechanism. It is demonstrated that there are factors in a developing country, specifically Iran, which do not matter in developed countries. In addition, the synergistic effect of using various technology sources vehicles is confirmed. Social implications Inaccessibility to infrastructures and global communication barrier problems are features of Iran innovation system. Such features discourage the foreign firms to make long-term investments in Iran which consequently deprives Iranian firms of their knowledge and technology. The modification of these problems is suggested. Originality/value Factors such as access to infrastructures and global communication barrier are not prevalent in developed countries; therefore, less attention has been paid to them in the literature.

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The impact of internal and external technology sourcing on innovation performance: a review and research agenda

Cited by 5 publications

References 103 publications

Do International Capabilities and Resources Configure Firm’s Sustainable Competitive Performance? Research within Pakistani SMEs

Do International Capabilities and Resources Configure Firm’s Sustainable Competitive Performance? Research within Pakistani SMEs

Firm specific determinants of open innovation in European SMEs

How to balance your technology sourcing portfolio in a developing country

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