1. La cooperación tecnológica como determinante de los resultados empresariales.
- Author
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Surroca Aguilar, J. and Santamaría Sanchez, L.
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INSTITUTIONAL cooperation , *COOPERATION , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *INDUSTRIES , *COMPETITIVE advantage in business , *MARKETING strategy , *EMPIRICAL research - Abstract
In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of technological cooperation on firm performance. Drawing on previous literature on technological impact of cooperation and also studies that connect technological capabilities with the achievement of sustained competitive advantages, we argue that technological cooperation exerts a positive effect on product and/or process innovations. From this point, we establish that innovative results positively impact on firm performance. We also analyse the differential effect of three types of cooperation, namely vertical, institutional and horizontal cooperation. Our results point out that, while innovation results mediate the relationship between institutional cooperation and firm performance, vertical cooperation has both a direct and indirect effect—mediated by innovation results—on firm performance. Finally, horizontal cooperation exerts a negative effect on innovation results as well as on firm performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007