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JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 41-56Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1509/jim.15.0068
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capabilities; institutions; new product success; meta-analysis
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Marketing and technological capabilities are major drivers of new product performance. Prior research has suggested that marketing capabilities outperform technological capabilities. This study shows that the relative advantage of marketing over technological capabilities for new product performance depends on the institutional context in a country. Meta`-analytic data of 341 effect sizes of the relationship between capabilities and new product performance taken from SO articles with 57 independent samples and collected in 17 different countries reveal new contingencies to the capabilities framework. Although in general, marketing capabilities have a stronger influence than technological capabilities on new product performance, this effect is moderated by institutional context factors. The relative advantage decreases and even reverses with increasing growth rates; it further decreases with increasingly stronger rules of law in a country; and it increases in societies that put emphasis on self-expression values over survival values. These findings contribute to research on the utility of different capabilities, inform the institution-based view of firms in international marketing, and provide implications for international marketing managers.
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