The impact of alliances and internal R&D on the firm’s innovation and financial performance

Fábio Paula and Jorge Silva
Additional contact information
Fábio Paula: PUC-Rio
Jorge Silva: PUC-Rio

Brazilian Business Review, 2018, vol. 15, issue 6, 533-550

Abstract: This paper intends to understand the relationships among internal and external R&D, innovation performance and financial performance in Brazilian manufacturing firms by testing a model using data from 2,810 firms. The study achieves this objective. We detected a positive relationship between external R&D from strategic alliances and innovation performance. Internal R&D, on the other hand, did not influence innovation performance directly; however, it positively moderated the relationship between strategic alliances and innovation performance, corroborating with the absorptive capacity theory. Contrary to our expectations, innovation performance had a negative influence on future financial performance. This was caused by the two-year lag between the measurement of the proxies of these two constructs, which was not long enough to allow identifying an increasing in revenues from new products and services. However, it captured the negative effect of redirecting marketing and sales resources for innovation activities, such as internal R&D, and of management costs of strategic alliances.

Keywords: Innovation Performance; Internal R&D; External R&D; Financial Performance; Manufacturing Firms. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://bbronline.com.br/index.php/bbr/article/download/496/752 Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bbz:fcpbbr:v:15:y:2018:i:6:p533-550

Access Statistics for this article

Brazilian Business Review is currently edited by Emerson Mainardes

More articles in Brazilian Business Review from Fucape Business School Fucape Business School Brazilian Business Review Av. Fernando Ferrari, 1358, Boa Vista CEP 29075-505 Vitória-ES. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Lasso ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).