IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jbrese/v189y2025ics0148296325000062.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Looking for new possibilities in emerging industries: The impact of strategic sensing capability on high-tech startups’ product innovation

Author

Listed:
  • Li, Xiaolin
  • Zhang, Mengjie
  • Li, Weiwen
  • Chen, Juanyi

Abstract

Although the existing literature generally acknowledges that dynamic capabilities (DCs) can promote product innovation in emerging industries, the effectiveness of sensing capabilities remains contested. This study deconstructs sensing capabilities into technology-sensing and market-sensing capabilities, examines and compares their impacts on startups’ product innovation in emerging industries. We also investigate the moderating roles of digital technology and the market-related knowledge base. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative research, we found that: a) startups’ market-sensing and technology-sensing capabilities have distinct and interaction effects on product innovation; b) startups’ knowledge depth and breadth moderate the effects of these two capabilities; and c) digital technology amplifies the effects of these capabilities. Thus, this study advances the dynamic capabilities theory in emerging industries, mitigates the heterogeneity in existing research, and deepens our understanding of the distinct roles of sensing capabilities.

Suggested Citation

  • Li, Xiaolin & Zhang, Mengjie & Li, Weiwen & Chen, Juanyi, 2025. "Looking for new possibilities in emerging industries: The impact of strategic sensing capability on high-tech startups’ product innovation," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 189(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:189:y:2025:i:c:s0148296325000062
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115183
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296325000062
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115183?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:189:y:2025:i:c:s0148296325000062. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jbusres .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.