| Market Dissimilarity, Technology Complementarity and Collaborative Innovation Performance: The Moderating Effects of IT Adoption |
Received:October 13, 2017 Revised:October 13, 2017 |
Key Words: market dissimilarity, technology complementarity, IT adoption, collaborative innovation |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | jianghua zhou | Business School, Beijing Normal University | | Jizhen Li | School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University | | Zixu Liu* | Business School, Beijing Normal University | | Hao Jiao | Business School, Beijing Normal University |
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Abstract: |
| One intension of our study is to explore the influence of different types of resource heterogeneity between partners on collaborative innovation performance. Another intension is to explore the boundary condition of that relationship. We tested our hypotheses using partial least squares (PLS). The results show that both market dissimilarity and technology complementarity relate positively to firm’s innovation performance, while technology complementarity is more effective. Our results also indicate that IT adoption negatively moderates most of the main relationships. This study provides a holistic framework for analyzing different effects of partners’ resource heterogeneity, and constructs a contingency model by confirming that IT adoption greatly moderates firms’ collaborative innovation process. It also appears to challenge traditional IT theories by indicating that the moderating effects of IT adoption are actually nonlinear. |
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