Broad Search, Deep Search, and the Absorptive Capacity Performance of Family and Nonfamily Firm R&D
研究了家族和非家族企业如何学习，发现家族影响会增强研发在利用性创新上的吸收能力绩效，但削弱在探索性创新上的绩效。
This study investigates how family and nonfamily firms learn. Specifically, it asks whether family influence fosters or hinders the transformation of the potential absorptive capacity augmented by research and development (R&D) into the realized absorptive capacity embodied by innovation outcomes. The conceptual model posits that family influence will enhance the absorptive capacity performance of R&D regarding exploitative innovations that tend to result from deep external search yet diminish the absorptive capacity performance of R&D regarding exploratory innovations that tend to result from broad external search. Regression analyses using a sample of 346 Dutch manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises largely support the hypothesized model.