...Nami Kim; Eonsoo Kim Purpose – Drawing upon the resource dependence theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the board capital diversity influences the explorative innovation of firms, attempting to resolve the inconsistent empirical findings of the effect of outside directors...

... at: y.chang@mail.ntust.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Explorative innovation captures the “research” aspect of the R&D process while exploitative innovation captures its “development” component. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of academic research has, as a result, focused...