Strategic embeddedness of modularity in alliances: Innovation and performance implications

Ricarda B. Bouncken; Robin Pesch; Siegfried P. Gudergan

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.01.020

Strategic embeddedness of modularity in alliances: Innovation and performance implications

Ricarda B. Bouncken^*, Robin Pesch, Siegfried P. Gudergan

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Abstract

This paper examines modular product structures in alliances. Results from a survey of 225 alliances show that modular product structures within alliances affect alliance firms' competitive performance. Product innovation performance, assessed as both speed to market and radical innovations and contingent on the employed innovation strategy, partially mediates this effect. Modular product structures exert curvilinear effects on product innovation performance and linear effects on competitive performance. Although the interaction of modular product structures with an innovation strategy increases product innovation performance, this contingency also reduces the positive effect of the innovation strategy on competitive performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1388-1394
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Business Research
Volume	68
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.01.020
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2015
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Innovation alliances
Modularity
Performance
PLS-SEM

UN SDGs

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