THE CONTAGIOUS POWER OF INNOVATIVENESS: HOW DIFFERENT CORPORATE PARTNERS CONTRIBUTE TO A FIRM'S KNOWLEDGE

Bernhard Moos (), Heinz-Theo Wagner, Daniel Beimborn and Tim Weitzel
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Bernhard Moos: University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
Heinz-Theo Wagner: German Graduate School of Management and Law, Heilbronn, Germany
Daniel Beimborn: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt, Germany
Tim Weitzel: University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2015, vol. 19, issue 04, 1-38

Abstract: As innovation is often created in networks, a company's business partners influence its innovative outcome. Although many studies investigate innovation networks as a means to explore and exploit external knowledge, virtually no research has focused on the characteristics of external partners — in particular their innovativeness. This study considers axial and lateral corporate partners and investigates the differential impact of the partners' innovativeness on a company's knowledge stocks (market, technological, organisational, process, and product knowledge).Drawing on the literature on inter-organisational networks and using survey data from the manufacturing industry, the results extend theory by revealing that not only relationships with partners but also their properties — partner innovativeness — are important for a company's knowledge stock. In essence our results suggest that the innovativeness of a firm's axial and lateral partners positively yet diversely influences its various knowledge stocks.

Keywords: Innovativeness; network partner; knowledge stock (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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