A Behavioral Theory of Innovation: An Attention-Based View

• Main Authors: Chuan-ChuanTseng, 曾娟娟
• Other Authors: Shih-Chieh Fang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82172685691839492525

博士 === 國立成功大學 === 企業管理學系碩博士班 === 98 === Previous studies have not fully explored how firms’ search behaviours may be heterogeneous when managers’ attention for innovations is different, in turn, influence innovative competence. We bridge this gap by integrating an attention-based view (ABV) to study firms’ knowledge search behaviours for innovation. Attention-based theories of the firm suggest that managerial attention is the most precious resource of an organization and the decision to allocate attention to particular activities is a key to explain why some firms are able to both adapt to changes in their external environment and to introduce new products and processes. In response to this theory, we collect a longitudinal patent data of 26 major LCD manufacturers from 1980 to 2001 for empirical study and find two insights. First, firms with incremental attention and complementary attention when searching knowledge will correlate negatively to domain impact. Second, firms using radical attention when searching knowledge will correlate positively to domain impact. This empirical study suggests that in order to maintain technological leadership, managers should pay radical attention when they search knowledge.