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Sophie Yang Yang

Bio: Sophie Yang Yang is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supplier relationship management & Social psychology (sociology). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 31 citations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a theory of supplier network-based innovation value, which explains how a supplier's upstream and downstream value network can be a source of competitive advantage for a buying company.

51 citations

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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The authors found that managerial attitudes toward supplier integration depend on the degree to which a collaborative organizational culture and synchronous manufacturing practices exist within the United States (U.S.) and China.
Abstract: Studies show the benefits of supplier integration, yet negative attitudes toward supplier integration may exist that constrain the initiative. The source of these negative attitudes is unclear, however. While literature tends to treat inter-firm management issues, e.g. supplier integration, separately from intra-firm management issues, we posit that with regards to attitudes, one is indicative of the other, and that the firm context influences how this occurs. Specifically, our research proposes that (A) characteristics related to intra-firm integration influence attitudes toward inter-firm integration, and (B) such influences have opposing strengths between the United States (U.S.) and China. Using theory about attitudes from social psychology literature and data from 224 U.S. and 117 Chinese manufacturing managers, our study finds that managerial attitudes toward supplier integration depend on the degree to which a collaborative organizational culture and synchronous manufacturing practices exist within...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined 905 new product innovations introduced since September 1988 to determine the influences on product innovativeness, with a specific interest in strategic alliances, or cooperative strategies.

389 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconceptualize the firm-level construct absorptive capacity as a learning dyad-level measure, relative absorptive capacities, and test the model using a sample of pharmaceutical-biotechnology R&D alliances.
Abstract: Much of the prior research on interorganizational learning has focused on the role of absorptive capacity, a firm's ability to value, assimilate, and utilize new external knowledge. However, this definition of the construct suggests that a firm has an equal capacity to learn from all other organizations. We reconceptualize the firm-level construct absorptive capacity as a learning dyad-level construct, relative absorptive capacity. One firm's ability to learn from another firm is argued to depend on the similarity of both firms' (1) knowledge bases, (2) organizational structures and compensation policies, and (3) dominant logics. We then test the model using a sample of pharmaceutical–biotechnology R&D alliances. As predicted, the similarity of the partners' basic knowledge, lower management formalization, research centralization, compensation practices, and research communities were positively related to interorganizational learning. The relative absorptive capacity measures are also shown to have greater explanatory power than the established measure of absorptive capacity, R&D spending. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

335 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt the absorptive capacity perspective while investigating the cases and focus on four distinct sub-capabilities: acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation, and find that the substitution approach consists of short-term research on new technological areas in order to gain the ability to identify and evaluate alternative technologies.

36 citations