https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/459162
標題: | When to commit more to a technological entry: Evidence of the follow-up patenting action of bearings manufacturers | 作者: | HSUEH-LIANG WU Lee, C.-Y. Lin, J.-C. |
關鍵字: | Asset specificity; Follow-up patenting; Learning speed; Technological deepening | 公開日期: | 2014 | 卷: | 31 | 期: | 1 | 起(迄)頁: | 1-20 | 來源出版物: | Journal of Engineering and Technology Management | 摘要: | While consistently making forays into new domains is common practice, a follow-up action represents a greater realization of the value of a prior entry. Subsequent to technological entries into new domains, why and when to follow up, in terms of a follow-up patenting action in the newly entered domain, is relatively sidelined in the technology management literature. This paper departs from the knowledge-based view on follow-up patenting action to the moderating roles of competitive intensity and learning speed in order to explore persistent innovation behavior under uncertainty. In a sample of 474 technological entries of fifteen top bearings manufacturers during 1990-2004, the study serves as a multilevel account of the interplay between patent, firm and field. Our results show not only the contrasting influences of a firm's knowledge depth and breadth on its propensity to follow up on prior entries but also the boundary conditions of such causal relationships. As a response to the recent call for more empirical inquiry into the dynamics of R&D investment, our evidence identifies the theoretical sensitivity of the knowledge-based view to contextual factors and sheds new light on the complex nature of follow-up patenting, particularly when firms are subject to external uncertainty caused by competitive rivalry and internal uncertainty due to learning speed. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/459162 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2013.10.003 | SDG/關鍵字: | Asset specificity; Causal relationships; External uncertainties; Follow-up patenting; Knowledge-based views; Learning speed; Technological deepening; Technology managements; Industry; Manufacture; Patents and inventions |
顯示於: | 國際企業學系 |
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