Seeing What Others Miss: A Competition Network Lens on Product Innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sruthi Thatchenkery ◽  
Riitta Katila
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
Field Data ◽  
New Product ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Collaboration Networks ◽  
Organizational Outcome ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Competitive Relations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

How a firm views its competitors affects its performance. We extend the networks literature to examine how a firm’s positioning in competition networks—networks of perceived competitive relations between firms—relates to a significant organizational outcome, namely, product innovation. We find that when firms position themselves in ways that allow them to see differently than rivals, new product ideas emerge. Simply put, firms with an unusual view of competition are more innovative. We situate our analysis in the U.S. enterprise infrastructure software industry, examining the relationship between the firm’s position in competition networks and its innovation over the period of 1995–2012. Using both archival and in-depth field data, we find that two factors—the focal firm’s spanning of structural holes in the network and the perception of peripheral firms as competitors—are positively associated with its product innovation. At the same time, turnover in firms perceived as competitors has an unexpected negative association with innovation. Overall, the findings suggest that firms benefit when they see the competitive landscape differently than their competitors. The findings also show that what we know about innovation-enhancing positioning in collaboration networks does not necessarily hold in competition networks.

scholarly journals Research on the Influence of Firm’s Innovation Driven on New Product Innovation Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Qu Yan ◽  
Chun-Shuo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
New Product ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Product Performance ◽  
Core Element ◽  
New Product Performance ◽  
Internet Firms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Product Innovation

New product innovation and R&D are important sources for firms to obtain competitive advantages, and market knowledge is the core element for firms to obtain new product innovation performance. However, it can be also found out that the relevant discussion upon innovation has been still limited to restricted theories and the developing empirical researching area by reviewing the literature. Based on knowledge-based theory, a questionnaire survey of 220 high-technology and internet firms in China was conducted to empirically analyze the relationship between innovation driven, potential absorptive capacity, and new product innovation performance. The study found that: the potential absorptive capacity mediates the relationship between market orientation and new product performance, technological opportunity and new product performance, and the potential absorptive capability positively adjusts the relationship between technological opportunities and realized absorptive capacity. It is possible to understand more clearly the process of firms acquiring and digesting information, transforming and mining knowledge to achieve new product innovation performance by analyzing the process of knowledge absorption and conversion.

Examining the Relationship between Authenticity and Self-Handicapping

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 795-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Akin ◽  
Umran Akin
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
The Self ◽  
External Influence ◽  
Turkish Version ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Relationship

Self-handicapping includes strategies of externalization in which people excuse failure and internalize success, but which also prevents them from behaving in an authentic way. The goal was to investigate the relation of authenticity with self-handicapping. The study was conducted with 366 university students (176 men, 190 women; M age = 20.2 yr.). Participants completed the Turkish version of the Authenticity Scale and the Self-handicapping Scale. Self-handicapping was correlated positively with two factors of authenticity, accepting external influence and self-alienation, and negatively with the authentic living factor. A multiple regression analysis indicated that self-handicapping was predicted positively by self-alienation and accepting external influence and negatively by authentic living, accounting for 21% of the variance collectively. These results demonstrated the negative association of authenticity with self-handicapping.

scholarly journals Research on the impact of firm’s innovation - driven on new product innovation performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 596
Author(s):  
Yan Qu ◽  
Chun-Shuo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
New Product ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Internet Firms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Product Innovation

The framework of this research is based on the discovery in the clues of former researches that Innovation-driven is the pre factor for the firm to grow up or to gain the competitive advantage, and among them, market orientation and technological opportunity are two of the major determinant factors for the firm’s gaining the competitive advantage and improving the performance and profits. Based on knowledge-based theory, a questionnaire survey of 220 Internet firms in China was conducted to empirically analyze the relationship between innovation driven, absorptive capacity, and new product innovation performance. The article found that: the absorptive capacity mediates the relationship between innovation-driven and new product performance, and market turbulence negative adjusts the relationship between market orientation and absorptive capacity. It is possible to understand more clearly the process of firms acquiring and digesting information, transforming and mining knowledge to achieve new product innovation performance by analyzing the process of knowledge absorption and conversion.

scholarly journals Narrative and Gaming Experience Interact to Affect Presence and Cybersickness in Virtual Reality

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Séamas Weech ◽  
Sophie Kenny ◽  
Markus Lenizky ◽  
Michael Barnett-Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Significant Disagreement ◽  
Narrative Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Public Museum

AbstractResearch has established a link between presence and cybersickness in virtual environments, but there is significant disagreement regarding the directionality of the relationship (positive or negative) between the two factors, and if the relationship is modulated by other top-down influences. Several studies have revealed a negative association between the factors, highlighting the prospect that manipulating one factor might affect the other. Here we examined if a top-down factor (narrative context) enhances presence, and whether this effect is associated with a decrease in cybersickness. We analyzed the association between responses to questionnaire measures of cybersickness and presence, as well as the degree to which their relationship was affected by the administration of an ‘enriched’ or ‘minimal’ verbal narrative context. The results of the first experiment, conducted in a controlled laboratory environment, revealed that enriched narrative was associated with increased presence, but that the reductive effect of narrative on cybersickness depended on video gaming experience. We also observed the expected negative association between presence and cybersickness, but only in the enriched narrative group. In a second experiment, conducted with a diverse sample at a public museum, we confirmed our previous finding that presence and cybersickness are negatively correlated, specifically when participants experienced an enriched narrative. We also confirmed the interaction between narrative and gaming experience with respect to cybersickness. These results highlight the complexity of the presence-cybersickness relationship, and confirm that both factors can be modulated in a beneficial manner for virtual reality users by means of top-down interventions.

scholarly journals The impact of collaboration network on new product development

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Peizhen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
New Products ◽  
New Product ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Collaboration Networks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Npd Performance

Purpose Researchers agree that collaboration networks can be an important implement in a firm’s innovation process, but there is limited empirical evidence on actually how they facilitate the new product development (NPD). The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Using longitudinal and multisource data on a sample of firms engaged in the Chinese automobile industry, the authors examine the structural properties of collaboration networks and their possible influences on firms’ NPD performance. Findings The results indicate that the structural features of the technology-based collaboration networks in the automobile industry have a low degree of collaborative integration and they influence firms’ NPD performance in diverse ways. The authors find that the direct ties, indirect ties and structural holes of the collaboration networks are all positively associated with firms’ number of new products. However, the authors have not found the evidence that the number of direct ties can moderate the relationship between the indirect ties and the NPD performance. Originality/value First, previous researches concerning the network mainly focused on their influence on technology innovation, few scholars studied the relationship between collaboration network and NPD. Second, the data used in this paper are true and valid, they are all from relevant departments of the Chinese government. Third, the empirical research of new products in China’s manufacturing industry is relatively new.

Designing a business unit and creating the first ever responsive kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo FESTA ◽  
Tommaso CORA ◽  
Lucilla FAZIO
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Business Unit ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Relationship

Is it possible to transform stone into a technological and innovative device? The meeting with one of the main stone transformers in Europe produced the intention of a disruptive operation that could affect the strategy of the whole company. A contagious singularity. By intertwining LEAN methodologies and the human-centric approach of design thinking, we mapped the value creation in the company activating a dialogue with the workers and the management, listening to people, asking for ambitions, discovering problems and the potential of production. This qualitative and quantitative analysis conducted with a multidisciplinary approach by designers, architects and marketing strategists allowed us to define a new method. We used it to design a platform that could let all the players express their potential to the maximum. This is how the group's research laboratory was born, with the aim of promoting the relationship between humans and stone through product innovation. With this goal, we coordinated the new team, developing technologies that would allow creating a more direct relationship between man and surface, making the stone reactive. The result was the first responsive kitchen ever.

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