What is it about?
Emerging markets firms are tardy regarding innovativeness and international orientation. Despite that, some of these firms are becoming increasingly competitive regarding innovation and internationalization. It is still unclear how these firms acquire and maintain an innovative capacity. To address this gap we propose and test a framework that integrates the role of past performance as a proxy to investment capacity, realized and potential absorptive capacity and internationalization and their influences on innovativeness, through a survey of 202 Brazilians firms from the Information Technology industry.
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The results showed the potential and realized absorptive capacity partially mediates the relationship between past performance and innovativeness, and internationalization moderates the relationship between potential absorptive capacity and innovativeness.
Perspectives
In this study we offer an alternative perspective about the recursive effect between the internationalization process and the improvement of internal capacities. Exploring effects of internationalization over resources and capacities may offer new insights about what firms can do to remain innovative.
Dr Silvio L de Vasconcellos
Associacao Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing
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This page is a summary of: Remaining Innovative: The Role of Past Performance, Absorptive Capacity, and Internationalization, Brazilian Business Review, November 2017, Fucape Business School,
DOI: 10.15728/bbr.2017.14.6.1.
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