Yung-Chang Hsiao

The Relationship Between Team Diversity and New Product Performance: The Moderating Role of Organizational Slack

The relationship between team diversity and new product performance is often assumed to be linear. This assumption has been challenged conceptually and empirically, but results to date have been inconsistent. This study examines this issue based on behavioral theory and social identity theory. The empirical results generally supported our expectations of the inverse U-shaped relationship between team diversity and new product performance. We also hypothesized and found that organizational slack moderated the curvilinear relationship between team diversity and new product performance. A questionnaire survey on 118 new product development projects in Taiwanese firms is collected to test the hypotheses. We conclude by discussing the managerial implications of these findings for the use of team composition to the new product projects in personnel selection.

The innovation and economic consequences of knowledge spillovers: fit between exploration and exploitation capabilities, knowledge attributes, and transfer mechanisms

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating roles of the attributes and transfer mechanisms of knowledge in the relationship between organisational capabilities and innovation and economic performance. Regression analysis on a sample of 120 Taiwanese firms was used to test our model. The findings suggest that the organisational capabilities of exploration and exploitation are positively related to innovation and economic performance. The effect of exploration on performance is positively moderated by tacit knowledge and adaptation knowledge transfer mechanisms. In contrast, exploitation is a stronger predictor of performance when organisations acquire well-defined knowledge and use replication knowledge transfer mechanisms.

First-mover strategy, resource capacity alignment, and new product performance: a framework for mediation and moderation effects

Based on the competence‐based perspective and contingency perspective, this study attempts to examine the relationships among first‐mover strategy, a firms core capacity, resource allocation, and new product performance. Our findings indicate that (1) firms achieve a better new product performance when adopting first‐mover strategy and having an excellent core capacity, and (2) firms achieve a better new product performance if their core capacity (technical and managerial) fits the resource allocation they implement. Managerial implications and future research directions are discussed.

Technological diversity, knowledge flow and capacity, and industrial innovation

ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of technological diversity, knowledge flow and capacity on industrial innovation performance. We suggest that there is an inverse U-shaped relationship between technological diversity and industrial innovation performance. Moreover, knowledge flow and knowledge capacity are hypothesised as negatively moderating the effect of technological diversity on industrial innovation performance. We use negative binomial regression to test the hypotheses in a panel data of 360 industry-year cases and the findings support our prediction. Managerial implications and future research directions are discussed.

In search of parents’ knowledge for joint venture’s innovation

ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of dynamic capabilities from the knowledge-based perspective, including knowledge relatedness and knowledge learning, and to investigate the dynamic capabilities on innovation performance in joint venture. Negative binomial regression is used to test the hypotheses in a panel data of 183 joint venture cases. Significant relationships are found between dynamic capabilities and innovation performance. Moreover, the moderating roles of parent patents granted before, parent knowledge diversity and joint venture knowledge diversity are recognised and are hypothesised as positively moderating the effect of knowledge relatedness on innovation performance, but parent patents granted before and joint venture knowledge diversity are hypothesised as negatively tending to moderate the effect of knowledge learning on innovation performance. The findings support our prediction and policy implications are discussed.

Business strategies, corporate social (ir)responsibility and firm performance

By distinguishing the differences between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate social irresponsibility (CSiR), we propose double U-shaped relationships between CSR and corporate firm performance (CFP) as well as CSiR and CFP. The relationships enlighten the coexistence of positive and negative social involvements of companies, and help to explain the mixed results between social and financial performance discussed by researchers. Moreover, business strategies such as cost leadership and differentiation have positive moderating effects on CSR-CFP relationship, but negatively moderate the relationship between CSiR and CFP. Finally, this study discusses the managerial implications and highlights future research directions.