文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Explicit and tacit synergies between alliance firms and radical innovation: the moderating roles of interfirm technological diversity and environmental technological dynamism

作者：Hao, Bin[1];Ye, Jiangfeng[2];Feng, Yanan[3];Cai, Ziming[3]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, 130 Meilong Rd, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Anhui Univ, Sch Business, 3 Feixi Rd, Hefei 230039, Anhui, Peoples R China;[3]Univ Nottingham, Sch Business, Jubilee Campus,Wollaton Rd, Nottingham NG8 1BB, England

年份：2020

卷号：50

期号：4

起止页码：432

外文期刊名：R & D MANAGEMENT

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000558851100002)】；

语种：英文

摘要：This study draws on theories of organizational inertia and relational view to examine how the pursuit of partnership synergy influences radical innovation in different technological contexts. We differentiate between two types of synergy: explicit synergy, defined as the potential to exchange interfirm operational elements to renew processes or capabilities, and tacit synergy, conceptualized as the potential to synthesize cross-boundary resources to develop new perspectives or thinking modes. We find that both explicit and tacit synergies have positive impacts on radical innovation, and such impacts are contingent on interfirm technological diversity and environmental technological dynamism in opposing ways. Specifically, environmental technological dynamism positively moderates the relationship between explicit synergy and radical innovation but not the relationship between tacit synergy and radical innovation. In contrast, interfirm technological diversity positively moderates the relationship between tacit synergy and radical innovation but not the relationship between explicit synergy and radical innovation. Our study sheds new light on the generation of radical innovation in alliances. It also provides practitioners with useful guidelines for crafting synergy strategies that will facilitate the pursuit of radical innovation.