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Cooperative innovation with buyers: how subcontractors and non-subcontractors differ

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Abstract

This article explores how the likelihood and determinants of cooperative innovation with buyers differ between two types of suppliers (i.e. subcontractors and non-subcontractors) due to heterogeneities in the supplier-buyer relationship and resources. It compares and integrates the relational view and the resource-based view (RBV) within the context of vertical cooperative innovation. It finds that the likelihood of cooperative innovation with buyers is higher for subcontractors than for non-subcontractors by analysing the data of Korean firms in the manufacturing sector. In addition, it finds that the status of subcontractors moderates the impact of factors affecting the likelihood of cooperative innovation with buyers. Specifically, the positive effect of process innovation competence on the cooperation likelihood is relatively greater for subcontractors. In contrast, the positive effects of product innovation competence and innovation appropriability are greater for non-subcontractors.

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Author(s): Kim J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management

Year: 2024

Volume: 36

Issue: 6

Pages: 1179-1193

Online publication date: 19/06/2022

Acceptance date: 02/06/2022

ISSN (print): 0953-7325

ISSN (electronic): 1465-3990

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2022.2088341

DOI: 10.1080/09537325.2022.2088341

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