제 1 논문 제목: Technological Environment, Learning Capabilities and Technological Catch-up of Laggards from Emerging Economies
In this study, the technological catch-up of laggards in emerging Asian economies (China, Korea, and Taiwan) is investiga ...
제 1 논문 제목: Technological Environment, Learning Capabilities and Technological Catch-up of Laggards from Emerging Economies
In this study, the technological catch-up of laggards in emerging Asian economies (China, Korea, and Taiwan) is investigated. By tracking their patenting activities, we examine how technological environment and search strategy influence the technological catch-up behavior of laggards. We highlight the importance of changes in the technological environment and laggards’ search strategy to seize emerging technological opportunities, especially during paradigm shifts. We find that laggards in emerging economies tend to catch up in areas where technological opportunities are abundant and the technology life cycle is relatively short. We show that for laggards with weak or mediocre combinative capabilities, a good balance between exploitative learning and explorative learning must be established, and that a moderate search for diverse knowledge may improve their chances of catching up.
제 2 논문 제목: Learning from Successful Peers: Technological Catch-up among Asian Laggards
This paper investigates whether technological laggards from developing countries learn from successful developing country peers as a means of closing the technological gap with leading firms from developed countries. We define “successful peers” as those that hail from similar home countries and have achieved a certain degree of success in reaching the global technological frontier. We believe that successful peers represent an important reference group for technologically lagging firms, and we find that laggards that build upon the knowledge of their successful counterparts are more likely to achieve technological growth, up to a point. There are diminishing marginal returns to overreliance on successful peers. In addition, our analysis suggests that laggards do not learn equally from all successful peers. Learning from technologically proximal successful peers hastens catch up.
제 3 논문제목: Imitation to Innovation: Technological Catch-up Strategy of Firms from Emerging Economies
In order to catch up with firms in developed economies, striking a fine balance between imitation and innovation is critical for firms from emerging economies. However, few researches have investigated the firms from emerging economies’ optimal resource allocation between innovation and imitation in the catch-up process. Drawing on evolutionary economics, we built a computer simulation model on technological catch-up strategy of firms from emerging economies. The model suggests that one-sided dependency upon either imitation or innovation deters firms from emerging economies’ technological catch-up in the long run. In addition, the model shows that, in the initial stages of catch-up, firms from emerging economies should focus on imitation and build technological capabilities and absorptive capacity. Then, in the later stages, when the technological gap has narrowed, they should increase investment in innovation and attempt technological leapfrogging. We also test this model under a range of technological regime variables including appropriability, cumulativeness, and technological opportunity. Our model shows that although technological regimes influence the probability of catch-up, our original finding is resilient across a wide range of variance in technological regime variables.
제 4 논문 제목: 경로개척형 추격 전략을 가능케 하는 조건에 관한 연구: 렌즈교환식 카메라 산업에서의 후발기업의 사례
This study examines the question of under what conditions a latecomer's path-creating catch-up can be successful. By scrutinizing the interchangeable-lens camera industry, in which barriers to entry are significantly high, we verify the two propositions, namely the external and internal pre-conditions, for the successful path-creating catch-up. First, a large gap in market share between the latecomer and the forerunner motivates the former's path-creation, whereas such difference makes the latter rigid or complacent in the existing technology. Market dominant positions made the 50-year ironclad market leaders, Canon and Nikon, adhere to the DSLR camera technology. On the other hand, due to its small market share, a chain of latecomers had sufficient incentives to explore the brand-new mirrorless camera technology. Second, in order to succeed in path-creating catch-up, latecomers need to have a certain degree of prior knowledge or experience in the related knowledge areas and recombinative capability, namely “catch-up capability”. Firms which pioneered in the mirrorless camera market had conducted the DSLR camera or related business before and had abundant experience in recombining different fields of knowledge and technology.
제 5 논문 제목: Search behavior and knowledge creation of firms in emerging economies
Purpose – This study investigates how search behaviors influence knowledge creation of firms in emerging markets. Search behaviors of an organization are classified into horizontal search (field span) and vertical search (time span).
Design/methodology/approach – Negative binomial regressions were employed to examine the effects of vertical and horizontal searches on knowledge creation and performance in 204 Chinese firms.
Findings – In a vertical search, searching for new knowledge facilitates knowledge creation for firms in emerging markets such as those in China. In a horizontal search, searching for knowledge from similar technological fields increases knowledge creation and subsequent performance.
Practical implications – The results of this study suggest that in order to innovate, firms in emerging markets should adopt idiosyncratic search strategies different from those of established large firms in more advanced countries. Given their high potential for knowledge acquisition, recombination of new knowledge, and insufficient experience with past knowledge, firms in emerging economies should focus on emerging and new knowledge rather than mature, old knowledge in order to improve innovation performance. The results also suggest that due to their underdeveloped absorptive capacity, firms in emerging markets should avoid searching in diverse knowledge fields, as established large firms in more advanced countries are encouraged to do, in order to innovate successfully.
Originality/value – This study provides new theoretical insights into and practical implications about knowledge creation for firms in emerging markets, focusing on two distinct search behaviors – vertical search and horizontal search.