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Technological capability, strategic flexibility, and product innovation
- Source :
- Strategic Management Journal.
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2009.
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Abstract
- This paper examines the role of technological capability in product innovation. Building on the absorptive capacity perspective and organizational inertia theory, the authors propose that technological capability has curvilinear and differential effects on exploitative and explorative innovations. The findings support the proposition that though technological capability fosters exploitation at an accelerating rate, it has an inverted U-shaped relationship with exploration. That is, a high level of technological capability impedes explorative innovation. Strategic flexibility strengthens the positive effects of technological capability on exploration, such that when strategic flexibility is high, greater technological capability is associated with more explorative innovation. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects :
- Flexibility (engineering)
China
Product innovation
Technological change
Strategy and Management
absorptive capacity
organizational inertia
exploration
Differential effects
innovation
Management
Absorptive capacity
Business & Economics
Business
Operations management
Business and International Management
exploitation
Industrial organization
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10970266 and 01432095
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Strategic Management Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....26f6fef03650d92510c86ff769a35769