Network Structure,Absorptive Capacity,and Innovation of Cluster Firms

摘要：

At current competitive landscape,firms can sustain competitive advantages only through innovation. Traditional industrial district theory elaborates the important role played by inter-firm networks in upgrading the whole clusters innovation function. With the perfection of net work analysis tools,more and more network researchers took individual firms in clusters as research objects,and studied the effect of superior network positions on firm innovation. However,network researchers stressed too much on the innovation function of firms’ external con tacts,thus bringing about a neglect of the innovation function of firms’internal absorptive capacities. This pa per integrates network theory and finns internal capabilities theory,and argues that it is of great significance to simultaneously take into account firms’network position and absorptive capacity in understanding and upgrading cluster firms innovation.

关键词： network position absorptive capacity firm innovation cluster fmms

作者: QIAN Xihong XU Wanli YANG Yongfu

作者单位: Lingnan College,Sun Yat-sen University,P.R. China School of Business,Sun Yat-sen University,P. R. China Lingnan College,Sun Yat-sen University,P. R. China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Zhengzhou Conference Conference on Management of Technology(2009郑州技术管理研讨会 MOT2009)

会议地点: 郑州

会议语种:英文

页码: 123-127

在线出版日期: 2009-04-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）