Loving Outside the Neighborhood: The Conflicting Effects of External Linkages on Incremental Innovation in Clusters

José‐vicente Tomás‐miquel, F. Xavier Molina‐morales and Manuel Expósito‐langa

Journal of Small Business Management, 2019, vol. 57, issue 4, 1738-1756

Abstract: The present study assesses the explanatory capacity of three levels of factors, namely, internal to the company, and internal and external to the cluster, in predicting firms' incremental innovative performance in cluster contexts. The empirical research conducted here focuses on a sample of 92 companies from the Spanish textile industrial cluster in Valencia. Findings reveal that the significant role played by firms' interorganizational ties as a moderating factor between absorptive capacity and their incremental innovative performance. Additionally, results reflect the differentiated roles developed by intra‐ and extra‐cluster linkages in these interaction processes.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12439

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