TY - JOUR
T1 - The fateful triangle
T2 - complementarities in performance between product, process and organizational innovation in France and the UK
AU - Ballot, Gerard
AU - Fakhfakh, Fathi
AU - Galia, Fabrice
AU - Salter, Ammon
PY - 2015/2
Y1 - 2015/2
N2 - This paper explores the relationships among product, process and organizational innovation, examining the complementarities-in-performance between these forms of innovation, within a supermodularity framework. Drawing upon two large samples of French and UK manufacturing firms using CIS4 (2002-2004), we explore whether firms can find a beneficial interplay between different forms of innovation. Since unconditional tests are often inconclusive about these complementarities, we implement a new procedure testing pairwise relations conditional on the presence/absence of a third form. Using this approach, we find conditional complementarities between product and process innovations in French and UK firms and between organizational and product innovations in French firms, but no complementarities between all three forms of innovation. Using different sub-samples, we show that the presence of complementarities depends on the national context as well as on firm size and firm capabilities, which gives support to the contingency perspective.
AB - This paper explores the relationships among product, process and organizational innovation, examining the complementarities-in-performance between these forms of innovation, within a supermodularity framework. Drawing upon two large samples of French and UK manufacturing firms using CIS4 (2002-2004), we explore whether firms can find a beneficial interplay between different forms of innovation. Since unconditional tests are often inconclusive about these complementarities, we implement a new procedure testing pairwise relations conditional on the presence/absence of a third form. Using this approach, we find conditional complementarities between product and process innovations in French and UK firms and between organizational and product innovations in French firms, but no complementarities between all three forms of innovation. Using different sub-samples, we show that the presence of complementarities depends on the national context as well as on firm size and firm capabilities, which gives support to the contingency perspective.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.003
U2 - 10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.003
DO - 10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.003
M3 - Article
SN - 0048-7333
VL - 44
SP - 217
EP - 232
JO - Research Policy
JF - Research Policy
IS - 1
ER -