Do Birds of a Feather Flock Higher? The Effects of Partner Similarity on Innovation in Strategic Alliances in Knowledge-Intensive Industries

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Absorptive Capacity and Firm Performance in SMEs: The Mediating Influence of Strategic Alliances (2011, background): “Regarding the liability of newness, prior research has illustrated that the competences of an organization improve with increasing age (Luo and Deng, 2009).”
Offshoring innovation to emerging markets: Organizational control and informal institutional distance (2014, background): “Scholars from business, law and political science have concurred that informal institutions are significantly more difficult than formal institutions to conceptualize (Bernstein & Hannah, 2008; Goodliffe & Hawkins, 2006; Luo & Deng, 2009).”
Corporate venture capital portfolios and firm innovation (2016, unknown): “, 2004), others have found support for a nonlinear, inverted-U shaped effect (de Leeuw et al., 2014; Duysters and Lokshin, 2011; Luo and Deng, 2009; Van de Vrande, 2013; Vasudeva and Anand, 2011) as well as a U-shaped effect (Wuyts and Dutta, 2012).”
How firms collaborate with public research organizations : The evolution of proximity dimensions in successful innovation projects (2016, background): “A firm’s absorptive capacity is thus higher when its partners are similar and when they possess similar knowledge bases (Luo and Deng, 2009).”