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Towards an open R&D system: Internal R&D investment, external knowledge acquisition and innovative performance
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In this article, the authors examined the influence of R&D configuration on innovative performance and the moderating role of a firm's research capacity and found that firms that increasingly rely on external R&DI activities have a better innovative performance, yet up to a point.About:
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Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth.
TL;DR: Mowery and Rosenberg as discussed by the authors argue that the large potential contributions of economics to the understanding of technology and economic growth have been constrained by the narrow theoretical framework employed within neoclassical economies.
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The Internet of Things: Building a knowledge management system for open innovation and knowledge management capacity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the relationship among knowledge management system, open innovation, knowledge management capacity and innovation capacity in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT).
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How MNC’s subsidiaries may improve their innovative performance? The role of external sources and knowledge management capabilities
TL;DR: It is argued that the firms which develop and possess superior KM capabilities have the ability to better manage external knowledge and combine it with the internal one, which means that subsidiaries with superior KM capability are more effective in using external R&D, augmenting the magnitude of their external sources of knowledge and, consequently, improving their innovative performance.
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Ambidexterity, external knowledge and performance in knowledge-intensive firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between organizational ambidexterity and firm performance in knowledge-intensive firms, using a quantitative methodology involving a structural equation model to investigate whether external knowledge sourcing enhances the impact of ambideXterity on firm performance.
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Academic collaborations and firm innovation performance in China: : The role of region-specific institutions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how collaborations with universities and research institutes influence the ability of Chinese emerging market enterprises (EMEs) to develop innovations and reveal that sub-national institutional variations have a profound impact on the relationship between academic collaborations and firms' innovation performance, illustrate that some established assumptions are not valid in emerging countries such as China, and offer insights into how EMEs can enhance their innovation performance.
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Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the link between firm resources and sustained competitive advantage and analyzed the potential of several firm resources for generating sustained competitive advantages, including value, rareness, imitability, and substitutability.
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Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to its innovative capabilities.
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Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations.
Manuel Arellano,Stephen Bond +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator optimally exploits all the linear moment restrictions that follow from the assumption of no serial correlation in the errors, in an equation which contains individual effects, lagged dependent variables and no strictly exogenous variables.
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TL;DR: The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members, which has implications for the basis of organizational capability, the principles of organization design, and the determinants of the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm.
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Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology
Bruce Kogut,Udo Zander +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that what firms do better than markets is the sharing and transfer of the knowledge of individuals and groups within an organization, and that knowledge is held by individuals but is also expressed in regularities by which members cooperate in a social community (i.e., group, organization, or network).
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