TY  - GEN
N2  - Innovation ambidexterity, namely, performing exploitative and exploratory innovation simultaneously, is important for high-tech firms to achieve sustainable success. This can be achieved by building an egocentric alliance network. Research into the influence of alliance network diversity on innovation ambidexterity is seeing more attention. However, the dierences among multiple alliance network diversities are unclear. Grounded on a knowledge-based view, organizational learning theory, and transaction cost theory, this study investigates in-depth the roles of geographical diversity, industrial diversity, and functional diversity of the alliance network. The empirical analysis based on panel data, including alliance data from the SDC Joint & Venture database and patent data from the Derwent Innovation Index database of 106 top high-tech firms from electronic information and biopharmaceutical industries, suggests that industrial diversity enhances firm innovation ambidexterity, geographical diversity impedes firm innovation ambidexterity, and functional diversity shows an inverted U-shaped relationship with firm innovation ambidexterity. These results provide practical suggestions about alliance network diversity configuration and innovation ambidexterity construction for high-tech firms.
AB  - Innovation ambidexterity, namely, performing exploitative and exploratory innovation simultaneously, is important for high-tech firms to achieve sustainable success. This can be achieved by building an egocentric alliance network. Research into the influence of alliance network diversity on innovation ambidexterity is seeing more attention. However, the dierences among multiple alliance network diversities are unclear. Grounded on a knowledge-based view, organizational learning theory, and transaction cost theory, this study investigates in-depth the roles of geographical diversity, industrial diversity, and functional diversity of the alliance network. The empirical analysis based on panel data, including alliance data from the SDC Joint & Venture database and patent data from the Derwent Innovation Index database of 106 top high-tech firms from electronic information and biopharmaceutical industries, suggests that industrial diversity enhances firm innovation ambidexterity, geographical diversity impedes firm innovation ambidexterity, and functional diversity shows an inverted U-shaped relationship with firm innovation ambidexterity. These results provide practical suggestions about alliance network diversity configuration and innovation ambidexterity construction for high-tech firms.
T1  - Alliance Network Diversity and Innovation Ambidexterity :The Differential Roles of Industrial Diversity, Geographical Diversity, and Functional Diversity
AU  - Zhang, Guiyang
AU  - Tang, Chaoying
AU  - Qi, Yong
LA  - eng
N1  - This resource was extracted from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
ID  - 41820
KW  - Technology
KW  - Sanitary engineering
KW  - Technology
KW  - Geography
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Recreation
SN  - 2071-1050
TI  - Alliance Network Diversity and Innovation Ambidexterity :The Differential Roles of Industrial Diversity, Geographical Diversity, and Functional Diversity
LK  - https://doaj.org/article/3f21b5cd9e994210a5a599cc7f7764c9
UR  - https://doaj.org/article/3f21b5cd9e994210a5a599cc7f7764c9
ER  -