Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/56234
Title: Does functional diversity in interfirm collaborations lead to innovation diversity? Firm‐level evidence from the Australian food industry*
Contributor(s): Azeem, Muhammad Masood  (author)orcid ; Fazal-e-Hasan, Syed  (author); Gutierrez, Leopoldo  (author); Baker, Derek  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2022-07
Early Online Version: 2022-06-06
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.12482
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/56234
Abstract: 

Research on the collaboration–innovation nexus emphasises that collaborations and innovation are multidimensional. Despite this emphasis, there is limited evidence on how firms' collaborative diversity affects their innovation diversity. This paper addresses this gap by examining the relationships between (i) a firm's functional diversity of collaboration (FDC) and innovation diversity, and (ii) innovation diversity and firm growth. We used longitudinal data from 738 Australian food firms, and our findings suggest that the positive relationship between FDC and innovation diversity reaches a point of saturation, beyond which additional collaboration negatively influences firms' innovation diversity. Moreover, innovation diversity depends on the motives behind alliance formation and the firm's focus on innovation. Finally, the association between innovation diversity and growth performance is heterogeneous across firms' conditional growth rate distribution.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 66(3), p. 612-637
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 1467-8489
1364-985X
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 300208 Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
300210 Sustainable agricultural development
300207 Agricultural systems analysis and modelling
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280101 Expanding knowledge in the agricultural, food and veterinary sciences
280108 Expanding knowledge in economics
280115 Expanding knowledge in the information and computing sciences
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Description: This paper was presented at the UNE Business School seminar and at the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society’s (AARES) 63rd annual conference in Melbourne, Australia on 13 February 2019
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