Firm-specific Innovations and Rent Appropriation: Tests of Contingencies

• Main Authors: WANG, Heli C., CHEN, Wei-ru
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Firm specificity; Technological innovation; Value appropriation; Environmental dynamism; Technological diversity; Strategic Management Policy; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3442; https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2006.22896780
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper extends the resource-based theory of the firm to examine the contingencies that either intensify or reduce the relationship between firm-specific innovation and value appropriation. Based on a large-scale analysis of a sample of US manufacturing firms, we found that greater innovation ren...