Absorptive capacity and autonomous R&D climate roles in firm innovation

Kuo-Feng Huang, Ku-Ho Lin, Lei-Yu Wu and Pang-Hsiang Yu

Journal of Business Research, 2015, vol. 68, issue 1, 87-94

Abstract: Absorptive capacity is frequently an outcome of a firm’s cumulatively path-dependent R&D investments. However, the query how absorptive capacity transforms R&D investment into firm innovation, in the context of autonomous R&D climate remains unclear. Using 165 firms in the Taiwan’s information and communication technology industry, the results indicate that absorptive capacity partially mediates the relationship between R&D investment and firm innovation. Absorptive capacity accounts for 36% effects of R&D investment on firm innovation. The result also shows a negative moderating effect of R&D autonomy on the relationship between absorptive capacity and firm innovation.

Keywords: Absorptive capacity; Innovation; R&D human capital; R&D climate; R&D autonomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.05.002

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