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- Title
Does inertia matter for parts manufacturers' innovation?
- Authors
Wu, Shue; Huang, Zhenlei; Zhong, Weizhou
- Abstract
The current study investigates parts manufacturers' innovative behavior from the population ecology perspective. Specifically, this paper proposes that firm level inertia and network level inertia matter in parts manufacturer's innovation. Using data from auto parts manufacturers, we test four hypotheses, and the results show that firm level inertia indicated by age does not matter, while firm's innovative inertia matters in parts manufacturers' innovation. At the same time, we find that cluster can promote general parts firms' innovation, but they will harm the innovative firms' innovative behavior. These results contribute to our understanding of parts manufacturer's innovation.
- Subjects
MANUFACTURING industries; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; INERTIA (Mechanics); POPULATION ecology; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior research
- Publication
Scientometrics, 2014, Vol 101, Issue 1, p705
- ISSN
0138-9130
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11192-013-1191-5