Innovation reliability and variability strategies: the importance of absorptive capacity to systemic outcomes

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1504/IJKBD.2020.115028

José Pinheiro, L. F. Lages, Á. Dias, G. Silva, M. Preto

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Abstract

The role of absorptive capacity (AC) has been widely recognised in the innovation literature. This study examines the predictive role of AC for business performance, and evaluates the mediation of market orientation (responsive-proactive) and innovation competences orientation (exploitation-exploration) in that relationship. The findings show that innovation competence orientations are more important to business performance than market orientations and that innovation competences are better enhanced by AC than by market orientations. AC is not only confirmed as an antecedent of ambidextrous market and innovation competence orientation, but it also helps directly and indirectly to explain business performance. Responsive market orientation (REMKTOR) and innovation competence orientation mediate the positive relationship between AC and business performance. The intensity and significance of the indirect effects reveal the specific knowledge-transformative roles of market and innovation competences orientations. Firms seem to mitigate uncertainty by adjusting their preferences toward less risky innovation strategies.

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创新可靠性和可变性策略:吸收能力对系统结果的重要性

吸收能力(AC)的作用在创新文献中得到了广泛的认可。本研究考察了交流能力对企业绩效的预测作用，并评估了市场导向(响应-主动)和创新能力导向(开发-探索)在二者关系中的中介作用。研究结果表明，创新能力导向对企业绩效的影响大于市场导向，创新能力导向对企业绩效的影响优于市场导向。AC不仅被证实是双灵巧市场导向和创新能力导向的前因变量，而且还有助于直接或间接地解释企业绩效。响应性市场导向(REMKTOR)和创新能力导向在AC与企业绩效的正向关系中起中介作用。间接效应的强度和显著性揭示了市场导向和创新能力导向在知识转化中的具体作用。企业似乎通过调整他们对低风险创新策略的偏好来减轻不确定性。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.