Publication
Title
Cooperating with technologically (dis)similar alliance partners : the influence of the technology life cycle and the impact on innovative and market performance
Author
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the cooperative relationships of innovating firms with (dis)similar partners during the technology life cycle. We test the impact of such cooperative relationships on the innovative and market performance of these firms. To do so, we use a sample of 83 Application Specific Integrated Circuit firms over the period 1986-2005. We find that working with partners that are technologically similar improves innovative and market performance early on in the technology life cycle. Working with partners that are technologically dissimilar improves innovative and market performance later on in the technology life cycle. These results indicate that innovating firms have to change their partnership from technologically similar towards technologically dissimilar over the technology life cycle.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Technology analysis and strategic management. - Boston, Mass.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : 2015
ISSN
0953-7325
DOI
10.1080/09537325.2015.1028915
Volume/pages
27 :8 (2015) , p. 925-945
ISI
000359771100004
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Subject
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Web of Science
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Last edited 28.08.2024
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