Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation and Innovation Performance: The Moderating Role of Alliance Portfolio Partner Diversity

PurposePrevious studies examined the effect of inter-organizational collaboration relationships on organizational innovation. However, most focused on the configuration of the network from the static network perspective, and few examined the influence of network structure stability on an organization's exploratory innovation from the ego-network perspective. This study addresses this research gap by focusing on ego-network stability and its effect on an organization's exploratory innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical setting is the smartphone collaboration network from 2004 to 2017. We selected one-site schemes and panel data of patents from the Derwent Innovation Database. A negative binomial model with fixed effects was used to test our hypotheses.FindingsThe regression results show that an organization's ego-network stability has an inverted-U-shaped relationship with its exploratory innovation. Global cohesion of the focal organization's knowledge network moderates the process in such a way that when it is at a high level, an organization's exploratory innovation can benefit more from a moderate level of ego-network stability. However, local cohesion moderates in such a way that, at a low level, an organization's exploratory innovation can benefit more from a moderate level of ego-network stability.Originality/valueThis study highlights the importance of ego-network stability and its effect on the focal organization's exploratory innovation. It contributes to the literature on the relationship between ego-network stability and exploratory innovation by investigating the moderating role of global cohesion and local cohesion in knowledge networks.

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Effects of entrepreneurial marketing on new ventures' exploitative and exploratory innovation: The moderating role of competitive intensity and firm size

Industrial Marketing Management ◽

10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.10.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 92 ◽

pp. 87-100

Author(s):

Jan-Thomas Bachmann ◽

Isabel Ohlies ◽

Tessa Flatten

Keyword(s):

Firm Size ◽

New Ventures ◽

Competitive Intensity ◽

Entrepreneurial Marketing ◽

Exploratory Innovation ◽

Moderating Role

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Integrator’s Coordination on Technological Innovation Performance in China: The Dual Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12010308 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 308

Author(s):

Lina Mao ◽

Jinghua Li ◽

Changwei Guo

Keyword(s):

Technological Innovation ◽

Dynamic Environment ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

Strategic Development ◽

Trade Friction ◽

Product Systems ◽

Complex Product Systems ◽

The Relationship ◽

Moderating Role

As the backbone of national strategic development, Complex Product Systems (CoPS) have made great achievements in China, the world’s largest demand market and second largest economy. However, their further development is challenged by the dynamic environment, including the ongoing Sino-US trade friction, for example. The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of the dynamic external environment on CoPS innovation. Based on contingency theory, this study identifies and investigates the moderating effects of technological and market dynamism on the relationship between the integrator’s coordination and its technological innovation performance. Using survey data from 209 CoPS integrator enterprises in China, the findings show that (1) the positive effect of an integrator’s coordination on technological innovation performance is strengthened by technological dynamism, while (2) weakened by market dynamism. In addition, (3) the technological dynamism acts as a higher-order moderating role in inhibiting the negative moderating effect of market dynamism on the main effect in general. Furthermore, (4) an unexpected but inspiring finding shows that the integrator’s coordination facilitates innovation most when both the technology and market dimensions are highly dynamic. This study may indicate that managerial recognition may have significant influence on enterprise’s behavior.

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