External technology sourcing and the dark side of open innovation
| dc.contributor.advisor | Watson, Barry | |
| dc.contributor.author | Purdy, Lauren | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-31T16:44:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-31T16:44:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Firms in high-technology industries face a complex set of challenges to innovate successfully and continuously, to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. At the top of this list of challenges lies the choice firms must make regarding project sourcing in their pursuit of innovation. This research makes a significant and novel contribution to this discourse and examines the sourcing decision in the context of new product development. Specifically, we apply a project-level typology along the dimensions of new R&D project source and project familiarity. Drawing from transaction cost economics and knowledge-based view theories, we empirically test our theoretically-developed hypotheses on a dataset of 2,971 biopharmaceutical R&D projects. Results from these analyses show that both R&D project source and project familiarity have significant direct effects on focal project performance outcomes. We also determine that focal project familiarity has a significant moderating effect on the relationship between project source and performance outcome. | |
| dc.description.copyright | ©Lauren Purdy, 2024 | |
| dc.format.extent | x, 70 | |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/38180 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of New Brunswick | |
| dc.rights | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 | |
| dc.subject.discipline | Interdisciplinary Studies | |
| dc.title | External technology sourcing and the dark side of open innovation | |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| oaire.license.condition | other | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Interdisciplinary Studies | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of New Brunswick | |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | M.IDST. |