D'Angelo, Alfredo, Ganotakis, Panagiotis ORCID: 0000-0001-7896-799X and Love, James
(2020)
Learning by Exporting Under Fast, Short-term Changes: The Moderating Role of Absorptive Capacity and Foreign Collaborative Agreements.
International Business Review, 29 (3).
p. 101687.
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Abstract
What are the consequences for innovation of fast, short-term changes in exporting activity? Building on the learning by exporting literature and using a sample of 880 Italian manufacturing firms over two successive time periods, our study reveals key asymmetries. First, a rapid increase in export breadth, but not in export depth, reduces the firm’s probability of developing new innovative outputs. Second, no such effects are found in the case of a decrease in firms’ exporting activity. Third, both absorptive capacity and foreign collaborative agreements facilitate the absorption of the shock occurring when firms experience a rapid increase in export breadth, but not when the rapid increase takes place in export depth. Theoretical and managerial implications emerge from this research.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Learning by exporting, Product innovation, Absorptive capacity, Collaborative agreements |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2020 10:10 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:03 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101687 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3074421 |