A Reexamination of the Relationship Between Interorganizational Collaboration and Product Innovation Performance: A Contingency Perspective

• Main Authors: Chang Wan Hsin, 張椀炘
• Other Authors: 謝明宏
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78127688127240341747

碩士 === 實踐大學 === 企業管理學系碩士班 === 96 === More and more firms utilize collaboration with external partners when they engage in research and design activities to create highly innovative products (Teece, 1980；Jassawalla and Sashittal, 1998；Faems et al., 2005). Moreover, different collaborating partners develop different innovative effects. However in the past literatures, inconsistent findings on the relationships between interorganizational collaboration and innovative performances arise . For examples, Faems et al. (2005) supported that firms collaborate with suppliers and customers are positive to innovative performances, whereas, Belderbos et al. (2004) found that no significant relationship between the links of the two. This study addresses these inconsistency with the perspective of contingency and discovers several moderators that might cause the incongruence. Based upon the resource based view and resource dependence theory, this study models the relationship between interorganizational collaboration and innovative performances with a moderator of regime of appropriability. This study uses secondary panel data collected in Taiwan Technological Innovation Survey 1 (TTIS-1) to ratify the proposed model. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the theoretical framework and hypotheses proposed in this study. The result shows that exploitative-oriented collaboration is related positively to innovative product performance aiming at products new to firms. At the same time, the more strongly appropriability regime, the more positively exploitative-oriented collaboration is related to new product performance and improved product performance. explorative-oriented collaboration has negative effect on new product performance and appropriability regime also moderates negatively the relationship. This study indicates that product innovativeness is an important factor when appropriability regime has different level influences on the relationship between interorganizational collaboration and new product innovation performance.