The effect of local and global linkages on the innovativeness in ICT SMEs: does location-specific context matter?
基于印度和斯堪的纳维亚国家ICT企业调查数据，研究发现全球联系对创新能力有正向影响，但国家背景起调节作用：斯堪的纳维亚企业受益于全球联系，而印度企业则更多依赖区域联系。
Countries differ significantly with regard to the location-specific contexts in which they are embedded. The aim of this paper is to extend the discussion on the effects of local and global innovation collaborations on the degree of novelty of innovation by considering this context. Our main question is: Does embeddedness in the developed or emerging country context affect the likelihood of benefiting from local or global linkages for innovations with higher novelty?The paper is based on data gathered through a survey of firms in the ICT sector in an emerging economy (India) context and from two Scandinavian countries (Sweden and Norway). The findings of this study show that global linkages do indeed impact the degree of novelty of innovation. However, country context does have a moderating effect. While the effect of global linkages is highly positive on the innovativeness of Scandinavian firms, for the Indian SMEs, the linkages that give novel innovations are the regional ones.