Leveraging Suppliers for Product Innovation Performance: The Moderating Role of Intellectual Capital

IF 1.1 4区 工程技术 Q4 MANAGEMENT
T. Schoenherr
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Abstract:This article scrutinizes the link between supplier leveraging and product innovation performance with the contingency of intellectual capital. Supplier leveraging refers to the utilization of knowledge obtained from suppliers for the benefit of the firm and product innovation performance to the firm’s ability to introduce new and radically different products. Intellectual capital is represented by the trichotomy of structural, human, and social capital. Applying the knowledge-based view, a positive moderation effect emanating from structural and human capital is hypothesized, with however a negative moderation effect emanating from social capital. The expectation for the positive moderation is grounded in the enabling knowledge processing capabilities of structural and human capital, enhancing the effectiveness of supplier leveraging for the generation of product innovation performance. The negative moderation of social capital is suggested due to it likely limiting the transferability and aggregation capacity for knowledge, in addition to also potentially questioning the legitimacy of the suppliers’ information, and thus making knowledge leveraged from suppliers less effective in informing product innovation performance. Data collected from 576 manufacturing firms confirm these hypotheses. Overall, by considering the interplay between supplier leveraging and intellectual capital, and its effect on product innovation performance, this study offers important new insight on the dynamics governing product innovations within supply chains.
供应商对产品创新绩效的杠杆作用:智力资本的调节作用
摘要:本文在知识资本偶然性的条件下,考察了供应商杠杆与产品创新绩效之间的关系。供应商杠杆是指为了企业的利益而利用从供应商那里获得的知识和产品创新绩效,从而提高企业推出全新的、完全不同的产品的能力。智力资本由结构资本、人力资本和社会资本三分法表示。运用知识基础的观点,假设结构资本和人力资本具有正向调节作用,而社会资本具有负向调节作用。对正向调节的期望是基于结构资本和人力资本的知识处理能力,增强了供应商杠杆对产品创新绩效产生的有效性。社会资本的负调节作用可能会限制知识的可转移性和聚集能力,此外还可能会质疑供应商信息的合法性,从而使从供应商那里获得的知识在为产品创新绩效提供信息方面的有效性降低。从576家制造企业收集的数据证实了这些假设。总体而言,通过考虑供应商杠杆和智力资本之间的相互作用及其对产品创新绩效的影响,本研究为供应链中控制产品创新的动态提供了重要的新见解。
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2.40
自引率
4.30%
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期刊介绍: Transportation Journal is devoted to the publication of articles that present new knowledge relating to all sectors of the supply chain/logistics/transportation field. These sectors include supply chain/logistics management strategies and techniques; carrier (transport firm) and contract logistics firm (3PL and 4PL) management strategies and techniques; transport economics; regulation, promotion, and other dimensions of public policy toward transport and logistics; and education.
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