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Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Erschienen in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 4/2016

01.12.2016

How do dynamic capabilities transform external technologies into firms’ renewed technological resources? – A mediation model

verfasst von: Jason Li-Ying, Yuandi Wang, Lutao Ning

Erschienen in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management | Ausgabe 4/2016

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Abstract

How externally acquired resources may become valuable, rare, hard-to-imitate, and non-substitute resource bundles through the development of dynamic capabilities? This study proposes and tests a mediation model of how firms’ internal technological diversification and R&D, as two distinctive microfoundations of dynamic technological capabilities, mediate the relationship between external technology breadth and firms’ technological innovation performance, based on the resource-based view and dynamic capability view. Using a sample of listed Chinese licensee firms, we find that firms must broadly explore external technologies to ignite the dynamism in internal technological diversity and in-house R&D, which play their crucial roles differently to transform and reconfigure firms’ technological resources.
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At a higher level, so-called “second-order” capabilities (Schilke, 2014) involve the learning mechanisms that allow firms to engage in “learning to learn,” a concept that is related to double-loop learning (Argyris & Schön, 1978). To avoid conceptual complication and confusion, we do not address the “second-order” capabilities in our empirical model.
 
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To check the robustness, we also used 1- and 2-year moving windows for all the estimation models. However, the results show no significant differences regarding the relationships among key variables. These complementary analyses are available upon request.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
How do dynamic capabilities transform external technologies into firms’ renewed technological resources? – A mediation model
verfasst von
Jason Li-Ying
Yuandi Wang
Lutao Ning
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2016
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Asia Pacific Journal of Management / Ausgabe 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0217-4561
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-9958
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-016-9469-9

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