TY - JOUR
T1 - What contributes to the enhanced use of customer, competition and technology knowledge for product innovation performance?. A survey of multinational industrial companies' subsidiaries operating in China
AU - Zhang, Junfeng
AU - Hoenig, Scott
AU - Di Benedetto, Anthony
AU - Lancioni, Richard A.
AU - Phatak, Arvind
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Temple University, Temple CIBER, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies for this research project.
PY - 2009/2
Y1 - 2009/2
N2 - This study extends an emerging research area in knowledge management to new product development by empirically examining the factors associated with the use of different types of knowledge flows from various sources and product innovation performance (i.e., market success of new products) in the multinational companies' subsidiaries in China. The findings seem to indicate the vitality of considering a broad spectrum of knowledge management related variables such as a subsidiary's product development strategy, market conditions it faces, its knowledge capacity and knowledge support structure. Furthermore, we found that subsidiaries with better performance are generally excel in the use of competition knowledge flow, the development of moderate innovative products, communication among different functional departments or product development groups, the codification of knowledge, and a supportive culture.
AB - This study extends an emerging research area in knowledge management to new product development by empirically examining the factors associated with the use of different types of knowledge flows from various sources and product innovation performance (i.e., market success of new products) in the multinational companies' subsidiaries in China. The findings seem to indicate the vitality of considering a broad spectrum of knowledge management related variables such as a subsidiary's product development strategy, market conditions it faces, its knowledge capacity and knowledge support structure. Furthermore, we found that subsidiaries with better performance are generally excel in the use of competition knowledge flow, the development of moderate innovative products, communication among different functional departments or product development groups, the codification of knowledge, and a supportive culture.
KW - China
KW - Knowledge flow
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Product innovation performance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=61449107995&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.indmarman.2008.12.007
DO - 10.1016/j.indmarman.2008.12.007
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:61449107995
SN - 0019-8501
VL - 38
SP - 207
EP - 218
JO - Industrial Marketing Management
JF - Industrial Marketing Management
IS - 2
ER -
