...Yu Wang; Tao Jia; Jinliang Chen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance impact of supplier involvement, based on the knowing processes and contingencies of knowledge-based view. Ambidextrous innovations (i.e. exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation) are taken...

...Saeed Najafi Tavani; Hossein Sharifi; Hossam S. Ismail Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to employ agility concept to develop a contingency perspective of relationship between suppliers' involvement, absorptive capacity (AC) and product innovation ( PI ). While the moderating effect of AC...

... this perspective to the examination of technology transfer within vertical industry relationships. The remainder of the paper proceeds as follows. We first review the literature on supplier involvement and the determinants of inter‐firm knowledge transfer, before developing our conceptual model and hypotheses...