The Effect of Firms' Innovation Modes on Novelty of Innovation: The Moderating Role of Dysfunctional Competition

32 Pages Posted: 12 Jul 2021 Last revised: 20 May 2022

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Guillermo Orjuela

Pontifical University Javeriana Cali

Julio Cesar Zuluaga-Jimenez

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

David Urbano

Autonomous University of Barcelona

Date Written: July 8, 2021

Abstract

Weak institutions leading to a dysfunctional competitive environment affect firms' innovation. Drawing on innovation modes approach and institutional theory, we suggest that STI (science and technology-based innovation) and DUI mode (learning by doing, using, and interacting) are contingent to a perceived dysfunctional competition. Using a robust standard error logistics model on a firm-level innovation survey, we find that dysfunctional competition prevailing in emerging markets weakens the positive effect of firms' STI and DUI modes on novelty of innovation. We explain this finding based on managers' perceptions of value appropriability. While intellectual property rights affect the innovation of STI firms, DUI firms' innovation is affected by information exposure. The results contribute to the innovation modes literature by showing that an appropriability regime influences managers' perception in STI and DUI firms which weakens firms' innovations. In practice, firms need mechanisms to protect innovation against competitors' opportunistic or unlawful behavior, whereby governments could foster means of appropriability associated to STI and DUI modes.

Keywords: innovation modes institutions, dysfunctional competition, appropriability regime, emerging market

Suggested Citation

Orjuela, Guillermo and Zuluaga-Jimenez, Julio Cesar and Urbano, David, The Effect of Firms' Innovation Modes on Novelty of Innovation: The Moderating Role of Dysfunctional Competition (July 8, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3882927 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3882927

Guillermo Orjuela (Contact Author)

Pontifical University Javeriana Cali ( email )

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Julio Cesar Zuluaga-Jimenez

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana ( email )

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Cali
Colombia

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David Urbano

Autonomous University of Barcelona ( email )

Edifici B, Campus UAB
Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193
Spain
34935811209 (Phone)

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