Technology embeddedness, innovation differentiation strategies and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-35

  Liu, Xuefeng ^a   Wu, Xiaobo ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Innovation differentiation strategies; Manufacturing firms; Network embeddedness; Strategic upgrading; Technology embeddedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955005030     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.2011.13.1.20     Document Type: Article

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