文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：How to gain from international R&D alliances? A mutual dependence logic

作者：Liu, Yang[1];Deng, Ping[2];Wei, Jiang[1];Ying, Ying[3];Wu, Bing[4]

机构：[1]Zhejiang Univ, Sch Management, Hangzhou 310058, Peoples R China;[2]Cleveland State Univ, Monte Ahuja Coll Business, Cleveland, OH 44115 USA;[3]Zhejiang Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Business Adm, Hangzhou 310018, Peoples R China;[4]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2021

卷号：135

起止页码：800

外文期刊名：JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000683570800015)】；

基金：The first two authors contribute equally. We are deeply indebted to Associate Editor Debmalya Mukherjee and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and developmental feedback. This research is in part supported from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (#71872053, #71872161, #71874150, #71872053, #71732008, #72091312, and #71972072) , Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. LR21G020001) , Shanghai Pujiang Program (#2020PJC027) and Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning Program (#2018BGL007) , the Ministry of Education (MOE) Project of Key Research Initiatives of Humanities and Social Sciences at Chinese Uni-versities (#17JZD020) , and the Monte Ahuja Endowment Fund for the Chair of Global Business at Cleveland State University. The research was in part accomplished when Drs. Yang Liu and Bing Wu were visiting scholars at the Monte Ahuja College of Business at Cleveland State University under the supervision of Dr. Ping Deng.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Emerging market firms (EMFs); Knowledge acquisition; Mutual dependence (MD); Domestic product innovation; Resource dependence theory (RDT); International R& D alliances

摘要：In an asymmetric international R&D alliance, a central research question is: how and when emerging market firms (EMFs) can acquire knowledge and foster their domestic innovation? To address this key question, we build on resource dependence theory (RDT) and particularly its core construct of mutual dependence (MD), and develop an MD model of R&D alliances (MD model or logic). Following the MD logic, we contend that MD is positively related to both mature and emerging technology knowledge acquisition of EMFs, which in turn enhances EMFs in their domestic innovation capability. In addition, we contend that organizational similarity and informal competition moderates the positive relationship between mutual dependence and knowledge acquisition and the relationship between emerging technology knowledge acquisition and radical product innovation of EMFs, respectively. Based on a detailed dataset of 225 Chinese firms, we verify our MD model, contributing to the literature of R&D alliances and innovation in distinct ways. Most importantly, our proposed MD model may stimulate future scholars to more carefully consider the role of knowledge acquisition underlying the motivations and actions of EMFs in the dyadic relationship.