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This paper offers an analysis of the influence of management behavior on the relationship between factors such as market, governance and resources of a firm, and the choice of the type of technological innovation in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The authors develop a structural equation model and 12 hypotheses and test the model and hypotheses using a sample of 274 SOEs in China. This study discovers that the choice of innovation types among Chinese SOEs depends on the turbulence in the environment, and on the organizational resources. The key contributions of the study include: testing existing theories of innovation in the context of Chinese SOEs; studying the factors that affect product innovation and process innovation in that context; and demonstrating that market forces and internal governance simultaneously influence SOE innovation.
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The Natural Science Fund of China (NNSC: 79925004, 70271026) provided financial support for this study. We thank Mingfang Li and George Farris for their insightful comments and suggestions.
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Li, Y., Liu, Y. & Ren, F. Product innovation and process innovation in SOEs: evidence from the Chinese transition. J Technol Transfer 32, 63–85 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-006-9009-8
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