Leveraging firm innovation performance through alliance portfolios in emerging economies: the role of absorptive capacity

• T. Diana Lewe van Aduard de Macedo-Soares ^[2] ; Fábio de Oliveira Paula ^[1] ; Hudson Lima Mendonça ^[1]
  1. [1] Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

     Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

     Brasil

     
  2. [2] University of Rio de Janeiro
• Localización: Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, ISSN-e 0718-2724, Vol. 12, Nº. 4, 2017, págs. 10-21
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Firms are increasingly engaging in alliance portfolios/networks – AP/Nets - to leverage their innovation performance –IP - and thus boost their competitiveness. Most studies, with a few exceptions especially from emerging countries, found a positive relationship between AP/Net and IP, depending on portfolio characteristics and firm absorptive capacity – AC. This article undertakes an empirical investigation of the AP/Net – IP relationship and AC´s potentially moderating role in this relationship in an emerging country: Brazil. Statistical testing of hypotheses regarding these relationships, and AC´s role, corroborated the exceptions. However, it confirmed how important it is that firms in an emerging country ensure a high level of AC to mitigate the negative effects of AP/Net diversity on IP. Some managerial and policy implications were also formulated.