Supply Chain Networks Source of Knowledge Sharing: Impacts of Capability and Collaborative Innovation Activities on Innovation Performance

Authors

  • Muhammad Yahya School of Management, Xian University of Architecture & Technology 13. Yanta Road, Zian Shaanxi, China 710055 Author
  • Aziz Ullah Department of Management Science and Engineering, Xian University of Architecture & Technology 13. Yanta Road, Zian Shaanxi, China 710055 Author
  • Ali Hadi Rabbani Department of Economics, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan Author
  • Mehwish Rafiq Department of Business Administration, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Pakistan Author
  • Muhammad Asghar Khan School of Economics and Management, Panzhihua University, Panzhihua, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61506/01.00122

Keywords:

Collaborative innovation, Supply chain networks, Knowledge sharing, Collaborative innovation

Abstract

Expanding on information the executives and innovation capacity speculations, this paper expects to uncover the systems of communitarian development measures by exploring the perplexing connections among basic variables impacting company's innovation execution in inventory network organizations. Utilizing progressive Multiple Regression (MR) and Moderated Multiple Regression (MMR) strategies, results from a review of 315 firms in China showed that there are critical positive connections between synergistic innovation exercises, information sharing, collective development ability, and company's innovation execution. Additionally, it is normal that information sharing plays an incomplete interceding job in the connections between collective innovation exercises and company's development execution. Community oriented development capacity displayed a directing impact on synergistic innovation exercises - development execution relationship. These outcomes add to community oriented development measure the executives by offering a nuanced conceptualization of the collective innovation - execution relationship in production network organizations.

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2023-12-25

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Yahya, M. ., Ullah, A. ., Rabbani, A. H. ., Rafiq, M. ., & Khan, M. A. . (2023). Supply Chain Networks Source of Knowledge Sharing: Impacts of Capability and Collaborative Innovation Activities on Innovation Performance. Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 12(4), 305-320. https://doi.org/10.61506/01.00122

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