文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Effects of government R&D grants on IT entrepreneurial firm performance: A new perspective on exploration vs. exploitation

作者：Chen, Jin[1]; Jin, Yuwei[2]; Heng, Cheng Suang[2]; Tan, Bernard C. Y.[2]

机构：[1] School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, China; [2] Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore, Singapore

年份：2012

卷号：5

起止页码：4226

外文期刊名：International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

收录：EI(收录号：20134416938475)

语种：英文

外文关键词：Information systems

摘要：Governments keep subsidizing R&D of IT entrepreneurial firms greatly. However, the effect of these grants remains unclear. Acknowledging this gap, this study provides a nuanced perspective to understand the influence of government R&D grants on IT entrepreneurial firm performance. Based on the literature on organizational learning, we categorize government R&D grants into two types: explorative vs. exploitative. Moreover, drawing on resource complementarity theory, we articulate how the two types of government R&D grants interact with firms' private R&D resources. In particular, we hypothesize that in the innovation stage, government explorative R&D grants complement a firm's internal exploration in influencing innovation performance, but substitute a firm's external exploration. We further posit that in the commercialization stage, government exploitative R&D grants complement a firm's innovation performance and internal exploitation in impacting financial performance, but substitute a firm's external exploitation. We advance a theory of public-private R&D interaction for IT entrepreneurial firms. ? 2012 by the AIS/ICIS Administrative Office All rights reserved.