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

Jason Li-Ying (), Yuandi Wang () and Lutao Ning ()
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Jason Li-Ying: Technical University of Denmark
Yuandi Wang: Sichuan University
Lutao Ning: University of London

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2016, vol. 33, issue 4, No 7, 1009-1036

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Resource-based view; Dynamic capabilities; Technological diversification; In-house R&D; Patent licensing; Technological innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s10490-016-9469-9

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