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Understanding the Antecedents, Contingencies, and Performance Implications of Process Innovation: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

机译：了解过程创新的前因，意外情况和性能含义：动态能力视角

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This paper examines one of the most important sources of competitiveness in dynamic industries-the capability of firms to introduce process innovations. While the management of product innovation has received considerable theoretical and empirical attention in the literature, our knowledge about how firms become process innovators-and why many firms fail to do so-remains underdeveloped. In order to provide novel insights into the configuration of firms' process innovation activities and their performance implications, this paper draws on the dynamic capabilities approach. More specifically, this study aims to shed light on the antecedents, contingencies, and performance consequences of interfirm differences in process innovation success, that is, firms' propensity and effectiveness of implementing new production, supply chain, or administrative processes. Particular emphasis is placed upon the analysis of potential complementarities or substitution effects between innovation activities such as internal and external research and development, prototyping, external knowledge acquisition, and employee training. Cross-sectional data from a large-scale survey of German manufacturing and service firms serves as the basis for testing the hypotheses advanced in this paper. Findings suggest that by engaging in a broad range of different innovation activities, firms can indeed increase the likelihood of achieving process innovation success, which is in turn positively related to firm financial performance. Yet decreasing marginal returns to innovation activities have to be considered as process innovation propensity was found to increase with the number of activities pursued simultaneously only up to a point, after which negative marginal returns set in (inverted U-shaped relationship). Furthermore, while environmental turbulence was found to have surprisingly little influence when it comes to translating process innovation success into firms' subsequent financial performance, industry membership as well as the nature of the innovation process (i.e., internal generation, external adoption, or cocreation of an innovation) emerged as key contingency factors. These findings have important theoretical as well as practical implications for managing new process introductions.
机译：本文研究了动态产业中最重要的竞争能力之一，即企业引入流程创新的能力。尽管产品创新管理在文献中受到了相当大的理论和经验关注，但是我们对企业如何成为过程创新者以及为什么许多企业不这样做的知识仍然不发达。为了提供有关公司流程创新活动的配置及其绩效含义的新颖见解，本文采用动态能力方法。更具体地说，本研究旨在揭示过程创新成功中企业间差异的前因，偶然性和绩效后果，即企业实施新生产，供应链或行政流程的倾向和有效性。特别强调分析创新活动之间的潜在互补性或替代作用，例如内部和外部研发，原型设计，外部知识获取和员工培训。来自德国制造业和服务业公司的大规模调查得出的横截面数据，是检验本文提出的假设的基础。研究结果表明，通过参与各种不同的创新活动，企业确实可以增加实现流程创新成功的可能性，而这又与企业的财务绩效呈正相关。然而，必须考虑到创新活动的边际收益减少，因为发现过程创新倾向会随着同时进行的活动数量的增加而增加，直到某一点，之后才出现负边际收益（倒U型关系）。此外，在将流程创新成功转化为公司随后的财务绩效，行业成员资格以及创新过程的性质（即内部生成，外部采用或合并）方面，发现环境动荡几乎没有影响。一项创新）成为关键的偶然性因素。这些发现对管理新流程的引入具有重要的理论和实践意义。

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