Author
Yeniaras, Volkan, Kaya, İ., Ashill, N.
Publication Date
2020-04-08
Publication Place
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Emerald Publishing Limited
Subject
Political ties, Institutional environment, Exploratory innovation, Market environment, Business ties, Exploitative innovation, Social ties, Demand uncertainty, Technological turbulence, Competitive intensity, Government support, New product performance
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
0885-8624
Record ID
2a2438de-b969-4b94-86c2-db0301d8f83c
Library Location
Business Administration
Date
2020-04-08
Notes
Kadir Has University
Sample Text
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical and empirical understanding of how social ties affect innovation behavior and new product performance in Turkey, which is an emerging economy where high levels of economic and political uncertainties exist.The authors examine whether innovation behavior binds the political and business ties of the firm to new product performance. They also examine if these effects are contingent on variations in the institutional environment and market environment.
Design/methodology/approach
Structural equation modeling and mediation analyses were used on a sample of 344 small- and medium-sized enterprises in Istanbul.
Findings
Business ties are positively related to exploratory innovation behavior and political ties hamper such behavior. The authors also show that government support hinders firms' disruptive innovation while encouraging incremental innovation behavior. The authors further demonstrate that the positive and indirect relation of business ties to new product performance through exploratory and exploitative innovation is largely insensitive to changes in market and institutional environments. Political ties are negatively (positively) and indirectly related to new product performance through exploratory (exploitative) innovation.
Originality/value
The authors offer a deeper perspective of how social ties in emerging economies affect new product performance by considering exploratory and exploitative innovation behavior as mediating mechanisms. These mediating effects are conditional on institutional and market environments.
DOI
10.1108/JBIM-12-2018-0371
Cilt
35
