The impact of alliances and internal R&D on the firm's innovation and financial performance

This paper intends to understand the relationships among internal and external R&D, innovation performance and financial performance in Brazilian manufacturing firms by testing a model using data from 2,810 firms. The study achieves this objective. We detected a positive relationship between ext...

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Autores principales: Fábio de Oliveira Paula, Jorge Ferreira da Silva
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6406177e630a45e390a98739aaa4f3cd2021-11-11T15:48:07ZThe impact of alliances and internal R&D on the firm's innovation and financial performance1807-734X10.15728/bbr.2018.15.6.2https://doaj.org/article/6406177e630a45e390a98739aaa4f3cd2018-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=123057497002https://doaj.org/toc/1807-734XThis paper intends to understand the relationships among internal and external R&D, innovation performance and financial performance in Brazilian manufacturing firms by testing a model using data from 2,810 firms. The study achieves this objective. We detected a positive relationship between external R&D from strategic alliances and innovation performance. Internal R&D, on the other hand, did not influence innovation performance directly; however, it positively moderated the relationship between strategic alliances and innovation performance, corroborating with the absorptive capacity theory. Contrary to our expectations, innovation performance had a negative influence on future financial performance. This was caused by the two-year lag between the measurement of the proxies of these two constructs, which was not long enough to allow identifying an increasing in revenues from new products and services. However, it captured the negative effect of redirecting marketing and sales resources for innovation activities, such as internal R&D, and of management costs of strategic alliances.Fábio de Oliveira PaulaJorge Ferreira da SilvaFUCAPE Business Schoolarticleinnovation performanceinternal r&dexternal r&dfinancial performancemanufacturing firmsBusinessHF5001-6182ENPTBBR: Brazilian Business Review, Vol 15, Iss 6, Pp 533-550 (2018)
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topic innovation performance
internal r&d
external r&d
financial performance
manufacturing firms
Business
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spellingShingle innovation performance
internal r&d
external r&d
financial performance
manufacturing firms
Business
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Fábio de Oliveira Paula
Jorge Ferreira da Silva
The impact of alliances and internal R&D on the firm's innovation and financial performance
description This paper intends to understand the relationships among internal and external R&D, innovation performance and financial performance in Brazilian manufacturing firms by testing a model using data from 2,810 firms. The study achieves this objective. We detected a positive relationship between external R&D from strategic alliances and innovation performance. Internal R&D, on the other hand, did not influence innovation performance directly; however, it positively moderated the relationship between strategic alliances and innovation performance, corroborating with the absorptive capacity theory. Contrary to our expectations, innovation performance had a negative influence on future financial performance. This was caused by the two-year lag between the measurement of the proxies of these two constructs, which was not long enough to allow identifying an increasing in revenues from new products and services. However, it captured the negative effect of redirecting marketing and sales resources for innovation activities, such as internal R&D, and of management costs of strategic alliances.
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title The impact of alliances and internal R&D on the firm's innovation and financial performance
title_short The impact of alliances and internal R&D on the firm's innovation and financial performance
title_full The impact of alliances and internal R&D on the firm's innovation and financial performance
title_fullStr The impact of alliances and internal R&D on the firm's innovation and financial performance
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