been little attention given to features that are associated with innovation-driven suppliers. As client firms increasingly … explored innovation practices at IBM and identified a number of paradoxical practices. We explain this phenomenon by theorizing … our findings through the lens of affordances and demonstrate how such practices created innovation affordances within the …

ownership of suppliers and customers on suppliers’ innovation activities. I find suppliers’ investment in innovation, quantity … and quality of innovation output increase when common owners control higher fractions of their and their customers’ shares … outstanding. The impact of this vertical common ownership on innovation input and quality of innovation output is stronger and …

their technology, thereby fostering supplier innovation. Using customer-supplier pairs in the U.S., we find that suppliers … cite and coordinate with customer innovation. Additionally, supplier innovation increases when suppliers have greater … financing flexibility and customers are highly specialized, stakeholder-friendly, and trustworthy. Such innovation positively …

South Korea due to firm ownership issues and incremental innovation is examined using data from a set of organizations that … foreign-owned suppliers operating in Korea. In addition, incremental innovation was the mediating mechanism between domestic …. We distinguish two different types of innovation – radical innovation and incremental innovation – that previous studies …