Inter-firm coopetition and innovation in industrial clusters: the role of institutional support

IF 3.6 4区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS

Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI:10.1108/jbim-07-2022-0339

Rui Xu, Xiaoxuan Zhu, Yu Wang, Jibao Gu, Christian Felzensztein

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Purpose Innovativeness is crucial for industrial cluster firms to gain sustained competitive advantage. This study aims to investigate the effects of inter-firm coopetition on firm innovativeness within a cluster and examines the moderating role of institutional support. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts an empirical survey method using multi-source data from 181 industrial cluster firms. Regression is used to test the hypotheses of this study. Findings The results show that cooperation and constructive conflict promote firm innovativeness, while destructive conflict is detrimental to firm innovativeness. Moreover, the study also finds that cooperation interacts with both types of conflict to affect firm innovativeness, where cooperation and constructive conflict interact negatively on firm innovativeness, while cooperation and destructive conflict interact positively on firm innovativeness. In addition, institutional support weakens the effects of cooperation and destructive conflict on innovativeness, respectively, but has no significant moderating effect on the relationship between constructive conflict and innovativeness. Originality/value These findings enrich the current research on coopetition. The interaction effects of cooperation and both types of conflict on innovativeness deepen the concept of coopetition and responds to the call to further explore the interaction effects within coopetition. The moderating role of institutional support fills a gap in the empirical research on the role of institutional factors affecting coopetition on innovation and also provides valuable suggestions for firm managers and governments in industrial clusters.

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产业集群企业间合作与创新:制度支持的作用

创新能力是产业集群企业获得持续竞争优势的关键。本研究旨在探讨集群内企业间合作对企业创新的影响，并考察制度支持的调节作用。本研究采用实证调查的方法，采用181家产业集群企业的多源数据。回归是用来检验本研究的假设。研究结果表明，合作与建设性冲突促进企业创新，而破坏性冲突不利于企业创新。此外，研究还发现，合作与这两种冲突之间存在交互作用，其中合作与建设性冲突对企业创新产生负向交互作用，而合作与破坏性冲突对企业创新产生正向交互作用。此外，制度支持对合作冲突和破坏性冲突对创新的影响分别有减弱作用，但对建设性冲突与创新的关系没有显著调节作用。这些发现丰富了当前关于合作的研究。合作与两种冲突对创新的互动效应深化了合作的概念，响应了进一步探索合作内部互动效应的号召。制度支持的调节作用填补了制度因素影响合作对创新作用实证研究的空白，也为产业集群的企业管理者和政府提供了有价值的建议。

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Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing BUSINESS-

CiteScore

6.60

自引率

25.80%

发文量

143

期刊介绍： The Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing (JBIM) publishes research on new ideas concerning business-to-business marketing, that is, how one company or organization markets its goods/services/ideas to another company or organization. It is a valuable source for academics, directors and executives of marketing, providing them with new, fresh insights which are applicable within real life settings. JBIM''s emphasis on insistence of proof is one of the cornerstones of its success and its reputation. Contributors to the journal must not only present new theories or ideas, but also back them up with research. In the process, many myths are exploded, philosophies reinvented and the scene set for topical debate on critical issues in B2B marketing. The B2B landscape evolves and so does the research that explores the emerging features and properties of B2B markets. From 2019 the journal hosts the IMP Forum that invites research advancing the boundaries of B2B marketing. Prior research has evidenced that interactivity and interdependences characterize interorganizational business relationships. The Forum aims to bring out research that explores interactivity and interdependences in business relationships and their implications for marketing management, business development and for society at large. Coverage: -Competition and cooperation- Networks in business markets- Buyer behaviour – purchasing and supply management- Managing product offerings- New product development and innovation- Networks in business markets- Distribution and routes to market- Market and customer communication - Customer relationship management- Sales and key account management- Organizing for global markets -