Social capital and firm performance nexus: the role of new product development capability and environmental dynamism in an emerging economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Akanpaaba
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Environmental Dynamism ◽  
Development Capability

The Impact of Publishing and Patenting Activities on New Product Development and Firm Performance: The Case of the US Pharmaceutical Industry

2003 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 213-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Steven McMillan ◽  
Alfredo Mauri ◽  
Robert D. Halmilton
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
The Us ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
The Impact

This paper studies the role of publishing and patenting activities as predictors of new product development for a sample of companies in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The research also examines the relation between new product development and firm performance. Hypotheses are developed based on the well-established absorptive capacity literature. The results show that publishing scientific articles and stock of patents are both significant predictors of the number of new molecular entities (NMEs) for which a firm receives approval. In addition, the degree to which a firm builds on its own technology (measured as self-citations in its patents) also predicts NMEs, but the regression coefficient had an unexpected negative sign. Finally, the performance results confirm that the approval of NMEs is significantly associated with the market-to-book ratio of a firm. The managerial implications of these findings and study limitations are also discussed.

scholarly journals New Product Development in an Emerging Economy: Analysing the Role of Supplier Involvement Practices by Using Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanagi Kanapathy ◽  
Kok Wei Khong ◽  
Rob Dekkers
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
New Product ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Supplier Involvement

The research question is whether the positive relationship found between supplier involvement practices and new product development performances in developed economies also holds in emerging economies. The role of supplier involvement practices in new product development performance is yet to be substantially investigated in the emerging economies (other than China). This premise was examined by distributing a survey instrument (Jayaram’s (2008) published survey instrument that has been utilised in developed economies) to Malaysian manufacturing companies. To gauge the relationship between the supplier involvement practices and new product development (NPD) project performance of 146 companies, structural equation modelling was adopted. Our findings prove that supplier involvement practices have a significant positive impact on NPD project performance in an emerging economy with respect to quality objectives, design objectives, cost objectives, and “time-to-market” objectives. Further analysis using the Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm, yielding a more credible and feasible differentiation, confirmed these results (even in the case of an emerging economy) and indicated that these practices have a 28% impact on variance of NPD project performance. This considerable effect implies that supplier involvement is a must have, although further research is needed to identify the contingencies for its practices.

Entrepreneurial orientation, new product development and firm performance: the moderating role of legitimacy in Chinese high-tech SMEs

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunqing Liu ◽  
Min Wang
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
New Product ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis paper examines the relationship of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), new product development (NPD), legitimacy (political and market) and firm performance (FP). The authors investigate how and when EO improves FP in high-tech small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachThe paper formulates 5 hypotheses from literature review and theoretical deduction. The hypotheses are tested using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression with data collected from 219 randomly selected SMEs operating in high-tech industries of China.FindingsThe findings show that the mechanism of EO improve FP in high-tech SMEs by considering NPD as a mediator and legitimacy as moderators: (1) NPD plays a mediating role in the relationship between EO and FP, (2) market legitimacy (ML) positively moderating the effect of EO on FP and (3) both political legitimacy (PL) and ML positively moderating the effect of NPD on FP.Research limitations/implicationsFor the limitations, the firms the authors’ surveyed are SMEs that are not listed companies, which cause some limitations. For the implications, the authors propose some recommendations based on the findings to help Chinese SMEs to enhance performance.Originality/valueThe existing research on EO–FP linkage remains elusive findings. The paper reconciled the inconsistency by providing a nuanced mechanism of how EO promotes FP in high-tech SMEs of Chinese transition economy. By explain the important role of NPD in high-tech SMEs, the findings shed light on the mediators between EO and FP and the moderators. By emphasize the different role of ML and PL in determining EO–FP and NPD–FP linkages, the findings illustrate the peculiarity of contingency factors in a transition economy.

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