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JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
Volume 76, Issue -, Pages 127-135Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.03.019
Keywords
Innovation capability; Financial performance; Relative-exploration orientation; Shareholder letter; Content analysis
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- J.B. Hoskins Professorship
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Firms strive to develop innovation capabilities that help them achieve competitive advantage in the marketplace. This paper shows that managers can contribute to firms' innovation capabilities by involving themselves directly. Based on a unique multi-source (shareholder letters, COMPUSTAT, and World Bank Database) dataset covering 335 firms over nine years, empirical analysis reveals that top managers' innovativeness makes them more likely to adopt exploration orientation over exploitation orientation in innovation. This relative-exploration orientation is a key mediator that can transform top managers' innovativeness into better financial performance, and the effectiveness of this mediating role is contingent on a firm's resources and the industry environment. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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