{"title":"Equity investment, knowledge exploitation, and innovation performance for joint ventures","authors":"Jun‐You Lin","doi":"10.1111/emre.12610","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How is joint ventures' (JVs) innovation performance affected by their parent companies' equity investment and their exploitation of their parent firms' knowledge? We investigate 183 JV cases and examine the main effect of equity investment as well as the moderating effect of ambidexterity imbalance on the relationship between JVs' knowledge exploitation and exploration of their innovation performance. We utilize proprietary Securities Data Corporation (SDC) JV data combined with the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) patent dataset to develop a mediated moderation model. The model indicates that equity investment is positively related to knowledge exploitation, which in turn has a positive effect on JVs' innovation; in addition, these relationships vary alongside ambidexterity imbalance. Our findings confirm the mediating role played by knowledge exploitation in JVs' innovative activities and highlight the tradeoff between organizational ambidexterity balance and knowledge exploitation as well as its influence on JVs' innovation performance. This research illuminates the foundations of JV innovation. Managerial implications are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Management Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12610","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract How is joint ventures' (JVs) innovation performance affected by their parent companies' equity investment and their exploitation of their parent firms' knowledge? We investigate 183 JV cases and examine the main effect of equity investment as well as the moderating effect of ambidexterity imbalance on the relationship between JVs' knowledge exploitation and exploration of their innovation performance. We utilize proprietary Securities Data Corporation (SDC) JV data combined with the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) patent dataset to develop a mediated moderation model. The model indicates that equity investment is positively related to knowledge exploitation, which in turn has a positive effect on JVs' innovation; in addition, these relationships vary alongside ambidexterity imbalance. Our findings confirm the mediating role played by knowledge exploitation in JVs' innovative activities and highlight the tradeoff between organizational ambidexterity balance and knowledge exploitation as well as its influence on JVs' innovation performance. This research illuminates the foundations of JV innovation. Managerial implications are also discussed.
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The European Management Review is an international journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of management in private and public sector organizations through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis. The European Management Review provides an international forum for dialogue between researchers, thereby improving the understanding of the nature of management in different settings and promoting the transfer of research results to management practice. Although one of the European Management Review"s aims is to foster the general advancement of management scholarship among European scholars and/or those academics interested in European management issues.