Loving Outside the Neighborhood: The Conflicting Effects of External Linkages on Incremental Innovation in Clusters
研究集群内企业渐进式创新绩效的预测因素，发现企业间组织联系调节吸收能力与创新绩效的关系，且集群内外联系作用不同。
The present study assesses the explanatory capacity of three levels of factors, namely, internal to the company, and internal and external to the cluster, in predicting firms' incremental innovative performance in cluster contexts. The empirical research conducted here focuses on a sample of 92 companies from the Spanish textile industrial cluster in Valencia. Findings reveal the significant role played by firms' interorganizational ties as a moderating factor between absorptive capacity and their incremental innovative performance. Additionally, results reflect the differentiated roles developed by intra-and extra-cluster linkages in these interaction processes.