TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning by exporting under fast, short-term changes: The moderating role of absorptive capacity and foreign collaborative agreements
AU - D'Angelo, Alfredo
AU - Ganotakis, Panagiotis
AU - Love, James H.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - What are the consequences for innovation of fast, short-term changes in exporting activity? Building on the learning by exporting literature and using a sample of 880 Italian manufacturing firms over two successive time periods, our study reveals key asymmetries. First, a rapid increase in export breadth, but not in export depth, reduces the firm’s probability of developing new innovative outputs. Second, no such effects are found in the case of a decrease in firms’ exporting activity. Third, both absorptive capacity and foreign collaborative agreements facilitate the absorption of the shock occurring when firms experience a rapid increase in export breadth, but not when the rapid increase takes place in export depth. Theoretical and managerial implications emerge from this research.
AB - What are the consequences for innovation of fast, short-term changes in exporting activity? Building on the learning by exporting literature and using a sample of 880 Italian manufacturing firms over two successive time periods, our study reveals key asymmetries. First, a rapid increase in export breadth, but not in export depth, reduces the firm’s probability of developing new innovative outputs. Second, no such effects are found in the case of a decrease in firms’ exporting activity. Third, both absorptive capacity and foreign collaborative agreements facilitate the absorption of the shock occurring when firms experience a rapid increase in export breadth, but not when the rapid increase takes place in export depth. Theoretical and managerial implications emerge from this research.
KW - Learning by exporting, Product innovation, Absorptive capacity, Collaborative agreements
KW - Learning by exporting, Product innovation, Absorptive capacity, Collaborative agreements
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/149376
U2 - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101687
DO - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101687
M3 - Article
SN - 0969-5931
VL - 29
SP - N/A-N/A
JO - International Business Review
JF - International Business Review
ER -