Behavioral and economic determinants of innovation strategy
Authors
Choi, Byungchul
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Kumar, M. V. Shyam
O'Connor, Gina Colarelli
Chari, Murali
Li, Yong
O'Connor, Gina Colarelli
Chari, Murali
Li, Yong
Issue Date
2015-08
Keywords
Management
Degree
PhD
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Abstract
The first one explores how technological and financial performance simultaneously influence decisions in exploration behavior of the firm. The behavioral theory of the firm proposes that performance–aspiration gaps significantly affect search behavior. While the theory proposes that various performance dimensions matter in organizations, in the context of innovation the research has predominantly focused on financial performance metrics. In this study, we take a multi-dimensional perspective to examine how technological performance and financial performance simultaneously determine a firm’s exploration behavior through shaping organizational states. We first introduce four types of organizational state by combining technological and financial performance. Then, we propose that financial performance feedback delimits the scope of technological boundary of exploration while technological performance feedback influences the organizational emphasis toward utilizing its own knowledge in further exploration. Using patent and financial data from 150 firms in high-tech industries of the U.S. during 1995-2002, we find support for our arguments. We find that different organizational state leads organizations to focus more on a certain types of exploration. Therefore, a firm’s exploration behavior can vary in accordance to organizational states conjointly formed by feedbacks from financial performance and technological performance. Our study offers the potential for bridging two theoretical perspectives, the behavioral theory of the firm and explorative search, with a richer range of organizational states and actual technological trajectory of exploration.
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August 2015
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School of Management
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Lally School of Management
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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