...Dong Liu; Beilei Dang; Yapu Zhao Purpose Managerial ties (i.e. business ties and political ties) could help manufacturers conduct learning ambidexterity by providing external resources. However, the resource management perspective claims that merely accessing external resources does not guarantee...

...Hai Guo; Jintong Tang; Zelong Wei Using survey data collected from 238 firms in a transition economy, this paper tests a model of firms’ exploration and exploitation competences under which managerial ties promote or constrain opportunity discovery. The paper finds that managerial ties...

...-market focus have examined developed economies, particularly those of the USA and European countries, and few studies have examined the relationships among taking a prospector local-market focus, managerial ties and performance in emerging countries (Miles et al., 1978 ; Miles and Snow, 1986...

...M. Muzamil Naqshbandi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test an integrated model to examine the relationship between managerial ties and two types of open innovation (OI). It takes into account the mediating role of realized absorptive capacity and explains how a firm’s ability...