Does in-bound FDI Increase Firm Innovation? An Organizational Learning Perspective

Autor: Ji Hye Jeong, Dae Il Nam, Ju Hee Kim
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship. 11:79-89
ISSN: 1975-7557
DOI: 10.16972/apjbve.11.4.201608.79
Popis: FDI has been considered as a source of competitive advantage by bringing scientific and technological innovation capabilities to domestic firms via organizational learning. Acquiring knowledge and technology by learning accelerates firms to be innovative. In the way of innovation, firms seek for innovation as a whole but innovation can be clarified as two different parts, product and process innovation. Different from product and process innovation, organizational innovation is not directly related to productivity or outcome but it is closely related to product and process innovations. As a kind of firm innovation, organizational innovation may be considered as preceding product and process innovation and it may positively mediate the relationship between in-bound FDI and firms` product and process innovations. In this paper, the relationship between FDI and product and process innovation will be explained by organizational learning and the way of organizational innovation affects to the relationship will be examined.
Databáze: OpenAIRE