Shanxing Gao

Transfer more, benefit more? An institutional framework for understanding the use of interorganizationally and intraorganizationally transferred knowledge

Abstract Firms’ use of the interorganizational and intraorganizational transferred knowledge is critical for product innovation in emerging economies. Based on institutional theory, this research examines the moderating effects of firms’ institutional environments on the relationships between firms’ transferred knowledge and their product innovation. The empirical results supported the proposed research hypotheses including the proposition that firms’ macro-institutional environment positively moderates relationships between the transferred knowledge and firms’ product innovation. Comparing privately owned enterprises and state-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises would benefit more from intraorgani-zational transferred knowledge and benefit less from interorganizational transferred knowledge.

Different Types of Innovation and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Managerial Ties

Although a firm may simultaneously pursue strategy innovation, management innovation, and product innovation, the mechanisms for them to collectively impact firm performance are still relatively unknown. This research first develops an integrative framework to reflect how firm strategy innovation, management innovation, and product innovation impact firm performance. This paper then examines the boundary effects of managerial ties which are further decomposed into cooperator ties, competitor ties, and government ties given the substantial differences among them based on coopetition theory. Empirical findings from 303 firms operating in China largely supported our research hypotheses. First, both strategy innovation and management innovation had a stronger positive effect on radical product innovation than on incremental product innovation. Second, as compared to incremental product innovation, radical product innovation had a stronger positive effect on firm performance. Third, competitor ties enhanced th...