Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate knowledge replication-imitation speed differentials in the context of patents as the target knowledge. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes patent citations in the electric digital data processing class employing an...

Purpose – Drawing upon the resource dependence theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the board capital diversity influences the explorative innovation of firms, attempting to resolve the inconsistent empirical findings of the effect of outside directors on firm’s R & D...