Innovation in a newly industrializing country: a multiple discriminant analysis
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An analysis of 42 corporations in South Korea categorizes their efforts at technological innovation, and identifies four distinct types of firms in the industrializing nation, depending upon source of innovation and whether competitive products from foreign manufacturers are available on local markets. The analysis indicates that firms with user-initiated innovations in products competing with foreign goods in the home country's market benefit the most from customer interaction and observance of foreign products' performance in the home country, whereas firms with innovator initiation and no foreign competitors in the home country benefit most from local research companies' developments and observations of overseas installations of potential competitors. The analysis techniques employed by the study include multiple discriminant analyses and bivariate analyses. Other results are discussed.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1985
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Organizational complexity and innovation: developing and testing multiple contingency models
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More effective and broad models of structural complexity-innovation and organization size-innovation are modeled. The models consider fourteen contingency factors, which are grouped into commonly cited contingency factors, industrial sectors and dimensions of innovation. The models show that the link between structural complexity and innovation depends on the operational definition of complexity, use of manufacturing organizations, environmental uncertainty and emphasis on innovation implementation. They also show that the link between organizational size and innovation depends on the operational definition of size, use of for-profit organizations, use of service organizations, environmental uncertainty, emphasis on technical innovations and emphasis on product innovations.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1996
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The effect of business interdependencies on product R&D-intensive business performance
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Seven configurations of research and development (R&D) businesses are identified; four in the industrial products field and three in consumer products. The four industrial-type enterprises are: established suppliers, fast movers, high-tech job shops, and stalled giants. The three consumer type enterprises are: established diversifiers, dominant specialists, and laggers. A spectrum of strategic interdependency levels is also described; including vertical integration, shared facilities, and shared marketing. Each kind of interdependency and combination of interdependencies can have a different effect for each of the different business configurations.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1987
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