Managerial ties, absorptive capacity, and innovation

By Shanxing Gao, Kai Xu, Jianjun Yang. 2008

229 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/33f3cca36ec72e969f33ecc688e8888df77939e4

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In Accounting

1. Yuan Li
2. En Xie
3. Mike W. Peng
4. Hock Hai Teo
5. Steven Si
6. Jun Lin
7. K. Meyer
8. Zhongfeng Su

In Strategy and Management

1. En Xie
2. Yuan Li
3. Mike W. Peng
4. Hock Hai Teo
5. Steven Si
6. Karun Pratoom
7. Gomon Savatsomboon
8. Jun Lin

Citations in the corpus

• Can guanxi be a problem? Contexts, ties, and some unfavorable consequences of social capital in China (2010, background): “Recent empirical studies continue to show managerial ties’ positive outcomes, which includes firm performance (Li, 2005; Park & Luo, 2001; Peng & Luo, 2000 ;W u & Leung, 2005; Zhang & Li, 2008), as well as new venture growth (Lee & Tsang, 2001), market responsiveness (Luo, 2001), and firm innovation”
• Effects of managerial ties and trust on supply chain information sharing and supplier opportunism (2014, unknown): “The performance impacts of managerial ties are tested directly or interactively with other organisational initiatives, such as organisational learning (Gao, Xu, and Yang 2008), competition and environment (Li, Poppo, and Zhou 2008), strategy (Li, Zhou, and Shao 2009; Chung 2012), etc.”
• Enhancing performance of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in developed markets: The role of business ties and technological innovation capability☆ (2017, unknown): “MARK technological innovation capability (Carlsson, 2006; Kafouros, Buckley, Sharp, &Wang, 2008) or absorptive capability (Gao et al., 2008).”
• Formal control and social control in domestic and international buyer–supplier relationships (2010, background): “Government interference heavily influences managerial decisions in these firms, including how to select and control their suppliers (Gao et al., 2008; Li et al., 2006; Ma et al., 2006; Su et al., 2009).”
• Knowledge management and innovation strategy in the Asia Pacific: Toward an institution-based view (2008, unknown): “Gao, Xu, and Yang (2008) discuss the importance of managerial ties in R&D activities in China.”
• Explaining factors affecting individual innovation: The case of producer group members in Thailand (2012, result): “Consistent with previous research in the Asia Pacific region, this study found that knowledge exploitation and exploration (Isobe, Makino, & Montgomery, 2008) and ties between companies and universities ( Gao, Xu, & Yang, 2008; Su, Tsang, & Peng, 2009) significantly affected firm performance.”