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How Barriers Influence Firms’ Search Strategies And Innovative Performance

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  • DAVID ADEYEYE

    (Department of Planning, Programming and Linkages, National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, PMB 012, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)

  • ABIODUN EGBETOKUN

    (#x2020;Department of Science Policy and Innovation Studies, National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, PMB 012, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)

  • JACOB OPELE

    (Department of Planning, Programming and Linkages, National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, PMB 012, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)

  • OMOLAYO OLUWATOPE

    (#x2020;Department of Science Policy and Innovation Studies, National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, PMB 012, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)

  • MARUF SANNI

    (#x2020;Department of Science Policy and Innovation Studies, National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, PMB 012, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)

Abstract

This paper contributes to intellectual discourse on the impact of barriers to firms’ innovative performance and external search strategies in the context of a developing country. Using data from the 2011 Nigeria’s innovation survey in the manufacturing sector, we tested three hypotheses: the relationship between barriers and firms’ innovativeness, breadth and depth of external knowledge sources. We found that firms’ innovativeness can decrease when they encounter a broad range of organisational rigidities. On the contrary, firms’ innovativeness increase in the face of regulatory constraints as firms may evolve ways to circumvent problematic bureaucracies while expectedly, as knowledge and infrastructure barriers become more intense, firms find it difficult to implement innovations. Similarly, we found that higher intensity of barriers, particularly knowledge and infrastructure barriers is associated with lower breadth of search. Hence, our results underscore the importance of regulation and infrastructure as key requirements for enhancing not only firm-level innovation but also knowledge search activities of firms.

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  • David Adeyeye & Abiodun Egbetokun & Jacob Opele & Omolayo Oluwatope & Maruf Sanni, 2018. "How Barriers Influence Firms’ Search Strategies And Innovative Performance," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(02), pages 1-21, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:22:y:2018:i:02:n:s1363919618500111
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919618500111
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    1. Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph & Osabutey, Ellis L.C. & Egbetokun, Abiodun, 2018. "Contemporary challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa: The emerging roles and effects of technologies," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 171-174.
    2. Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph & Hinson, Robert E., 2019. "Contextual influences on new technology ventures: A study of domestic firms in Ghana," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 289-296.
    3. CLAUDINE KEARNEY & KILLIAN J. McCARTHY & EELKO K. R. E. HUIZINGH, 2019. "One Size (Does Not) Fit All: Evidence Of Similarities And Differences Between Product Innovation Management In High- And Low-Tech Manufacturing Firms," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(01), pages 1-30, January.
    4. Lu Jiao & Kevin Baird & Graeme Harrison, 2020. "Searching in the regulatory environment: The impact of regulatory search on firm innovativeness," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 45(1), pages 153-171, February.
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