The Impacts of Network Positions, Knowledge Base on Firms'New Product Development Performance

Abstract

Abstract:

In this study, we construct collaborative R&D network based on joint patent data of China's automobile industry from 1998 to 2013. We discuss the impacts of network positions on firms' new product development performance, and analyze the mediating effect of knowledge base on the relationship between network positions and the influence on the new product development performance. We find that network centralization and structural holes have a positive relationship with a firms' new product development performance. In addition, there is a positive relationship between knowledge breadth and knowledge depth and a firms' new product development performance. Also we find a partially mediating effect of knowledge breadth and knowledge depth on the relationship between network centralization and the new product development performance, and a fully mediating effect of knowledge breadth on the relationship between structural holes and the new product development performance.

Key words: network centralization, structural holes, knowledge breadth, knowledge depth, new product development performance

Chen Peizhen, Zeng Deming. The Impacts of Network Positions, Knowledge Base on Firms'New Product Development Performance[J]. , 2019, 31(11): 128-138.

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