The Role of Foreignness in the Relationship between Disruptive Innovation and MNE Performance

Institutions & Transition Economics: Microeconomic Issues eJournal Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI:10.37625/abr.23.1.18-34

Chuandi Jiang, Xinglu Zhao

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The innovation-performance literature has failed to make a distinction between the effects of incremental and disruptive innovation on multinational enterprise (MNE) performance. The understanding of the role of foreignness has overemphasized the negative side. From the institutional anomie theory perspective, this study investigates how foreignness, which consists of national culture, industrial competition, and innovative national capacity, affects the relationship between disruptive innovation and MNE performance. We illustrate the distinctiveness between incremental and disruptive innovation and then build a conceptual model to show the moderating role of foreignness on the innovation-performance link. The model suggests that foreignness provides contextual conditions under which the relationship between disruptive innovation and MNE performance is either strengthened or impeded. Also, firm-level cultural intelligence (CQ) can help MNEs to overcome the negative effects of foreignness, as well as enhance its positive effects. Propositions are discussed for further research.

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外来性在破坏性创新与跨国公司绩效关系中的作用

有关创新绩效的文献未能区分渐进式创新和破坏性创新对跨国企业绩效的影响。对外国人作用的认识过分强调了其消极的一面。本文从制度失范理论的视角，考察了由民族文化、产业竞争和国家创新能力构成的外部性如何影响颠覆性创新与跨国公司绩效的关系。本文首先分析了渐进式创新和破坏性创新之间的差异，然后构建了一个概念模型来证明外来性对创新绩效的调节作用。该模型表明，外来性为颠覆性创新与跨国公司绩效之间的关系要么得到加强，要么受到阻碍提供了语境条件。此外，企业文化智力(CQ)可以帮助跨国公司克服外国的负面影响，并增强其积极作用。讨论了进一步研究的建议。

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