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Examining The Dynamics of Cooperation Between Competing Firms in Their R&D Activities (R&D Co-Opetition)

South East Asian Journal of Management

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Title Examining The Dynamics of Cooperation Between Competing Firms in Their R&D Activities (R&D Co-Opetition)
 
Creator Fakhraddin Maroofi; University of Kurdistan
 
Subject Application; Technological Capabilities; R&D Collaboration; Goods innovation; Emerging Market
 
Description The relationship between collaboration with competitors and goods innovation performance was investigated along with the moderating effect of the innovating firm's technological capability. The hypothesis that collaboration with competitors has an inverted U-shaped relationship with goods innovation performance was tested using data on new goods introductions from 749 Iranian firms. The results support the balance between competition and collaboration by confirming that collaboration with competitors contributes considerably to successful goods innovation. The positive influences of co-optation certainly seem consistent with the cooperative arguments that collaboration with competitors increases absorptive capacity, improves information exchange and facilitates joint problem solving. The results also show that unnecessary collaboration with competitors can have a negative influence on innovation performance, raising concerns about opportunistic exploitation. The results support the existence of a bell-shaped relationship between application and goods innovation performance. Technological capability and alliances with universities were shown to weaken the relationship.
 
Publisher Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia
 
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Date 2015-11-02
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.ui.ac.id/index.php/tseajm/article/view/4949
 
Source The South East Asian Journal of Management; Vol 9, No 2 (2015): October 2015 (In Press)
 
Language en