Alliance Portfolio Resource Diversity and Firm Innovation

2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna S. Cui ◽  
Gina O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Alliance Portfolio ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Resource Diversity

Geographical Diversity of Alliance Portfolio and Firm Innovation: The Roles of Resource Characteristics and Governance Structures

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950001
Author(s):  
Qin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Alliance Portfolio ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Alliance Partners ◽  
Resource Characteristics ◽  
Alliance Governance

This paper explores how geographical diversity of an alliance portfolio benefits resource-based firm innovation. We propose that there are inverted U-shaped relationships between geographical diversity of an alliance portfolio and a firm’s radical and incremental innovation. In addition, resource characteristics and alliance governance structures are considered as important moderators between geographically diverse alliances and innovation. Relevant resources of alliance partners help focal firms to acquire valuable resources from different locations, thus improving organizational capabilities and achieving innovation. Governance structure choices concentrate on opportunism and transaction cost in coordinating resource sharing and recombination activities, which determine focal firms’ cost of knowledge management and then innovation outcome. Our research could advance the literature on alliance portfolio diversity by studying how firms use their alliance portfolio from diverse locations to recombine resources and then to enhance innovation, which remains less explored.

Impact of extended alliance portfolio configuration on firm innovation

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ho-Sung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Alliance Portfolio ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Pharmaceutical Firms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Focal Firm ◽  
Size Number ◽  
Structure Density ◽  
Moments Estimates ◽  
Favorable Conditions

AbstractIn the past, alliance portfolio configuration (APC) studies concentrated mostly on the direct alliances or partners of a focal firm. However, a focal firm is also influenced by indirect alliances or partners. This study endeavors to focus on this aspect of APC. It contributes to APC research by extending the scope to three degrees from a focal firm. To assess the effects of extended APCs, 186 3-year window snapshots were created of the extended APCs of 31 Korean bio-pharmaceutical firms. These snapshots range from 2007 to 2014. The effects of structure (density), size (number of alliances and partners), and relationships to firm innovation were measured using the two-step generalized method of moments estimates. The results show that structural sparseness and larger-sized extended APCs are more favorable conditions for innovation, and that structural sparseness and size have a positive relationship to innovation performance.

scholarly journals The role of frequent engagement in alliances in firm likelihood to patent

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 919-938
Author(s):  
Despoina Filiou ◽  
Heinz Tusselmann ◽  
Lawrence Green
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Alliance Portfolio ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Alliance Management ◽  
Alliance Experience ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of alliance experience in firm innovation; it argues that, while cumulative alliance experience has a marginally diminishing contribution to likelihood of firm innovation over time, frequent engagement in alliances and an expanding alliance portfolio inhabit an enhancing role. This reveals new dimensions to the role of alliance experience as an antecedent to firm learning in managing alliances and to the development of alliance capabilities. Design/methodology/approach The paper estimates a range of models identifying the relationship between alliance experience and firm innovation. The panel data sample captures the full range of firms active in the UK bio-pharmaceuticals sector during the early stages of its development observing them from 1991 to 2001. An exploratory case study analysis is employed to shed light on the nuanced factors linking frequent engagement in alliances to the development of practices for efficient alliance management. Findings The paper shows that cumulative alliance experience has a marginally diminishing contribution to likelihood of firm innovation over time, while frequent engagement in alliances and the ensuing expansion of alliance portfolios enhance firm innovation. The exploratory case analysis demonstrates a link between frequent engagement in alliances and the development of processes for alliance management that could collectively reflect alliance capabilities. Originality/value Contribution derives from a longitudinal analysis of an original panel data set that maps the UK bio-pharmaceuticals sector over the initial period of its development. The paper sheds light on factors that can compel firms to form alliance capabilities, and extends a currently thin body of work on the foundations and antecedents to alliance and alliance portfolio capabilities.

Impact of coopetition in the alliance portfolio and coopetition experience on firm innovation

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 893-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byung-Jin (Robert) Park ◽  
Manish K. Srivastava ◽  
Devi R. Gnyawali
Keyword(s):  
Alliance Portfolio ◽  
Firm Innovation

scholarly journals The Impact of Industry–University–Research Alliance Portfolio Diversity on Firm Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuman Zhang ◽  
Changhong Yuan ◽  
Yuying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
University Research ◽  
Alliance Portfolio ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Chinese Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The Impact

Innovation is a key factor for the sustainable development of firms. Although it has been a prevalent phenomenon that firms maintain multiple industry–university–research (I–U–R) alliances simultaneously to generate innovation, there is a lack of explorations in this phenomenon in extant literature. In this study, we introduce a new construct, I–U–R alliance portfolio, and investigate the impact of its diversity on a focal firm’s innovation performance. Hypotheses are proposed and examined using datasets of 176 listed firms in the Chinese manufacturing industry. We find that I–U–R alliance portfolio diversity exerts a positive effect on a focal firm’s innovation performance and a firm’s absorptive capacity positively moderates this relationship. Furthermore, we contend that with increasing levels of government financial support, the positive relationship between I–U–R alliance portfolio diversity and firm innovation performance is strengthened. Finally, our findings provide several theoretical and practical implications for the I–U–R alliance portfolio and firm innovation.

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