The impact of imitation strategy and R&D resources on incremental and radical innovation: evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms
| Autor: | Zefu Wu, Jie Wu, Kathryn Rudie Harrigan, Siah Hwee Ang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
Critical boundary media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences General Engineering Commercial law FOS: Economics and business Accounting 0502 economics and business Economics Manufacturing firms 050211 marketing Business and International Management Marketing Imitation 050203 business & management Industrial organization media_common |
| DOI: | 10.25455/wgtn.21280218 |
| Popis: | This study proposes and tests a theoretical framework that relates a firm’s imitation strategy and its interaction with R&D resources to incremental and radical innovation. The analysis of a panel dataset of 1381 Chinese manufacturing firms in the period 2008–2014 shows that imitation strategy is positively related to incremental innovation but has an inverted U-shaped relationship with radical innovation. More interestingly, R&D resources serve as a critical boundary condition of the imitation strategy–innovation link—they strengthen the link between imitation strategy and incremental innovation but weaken the link between imitation strategy and radical innovation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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