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    The impact of failure experience in product development on knowledge usage and financial performance of the firm


    Su, Peiran and McNamara, Peter (2012) The impact of failure experience in product development on knowledge usage and financial performance of the firm. In: 11th World Congress of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management., June 2012, Limerick, Ireland.

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    Abstract

    We focus on the relationships between failure experience in product development and two aspects of R&D intensive firms, knowledge usage and financial performance. We hypothesize a positive relationship between failure experience and knowledge usage, as well as a curve linear (inverted U-shaped) relationship between failure experience and financial performance. We further propose that exploration in product development positively moderates the impact of failure experience on knowledge usage and negatively moderates the impact of failure experience on firm financial performance. A longitudinal study on 165 firms in the global pharmaceutical industry from 1990 to 2008 generally supports the hypotheses.
    Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
    Keywords: Learning From Failure; Product Development; Knowledge Usage; Firm Performance; Exploration Contingency;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
    Item ID: 15770
    Depositing User: Peter McNamara
    Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2022 11:18
    Refereed: Yes
    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/15770
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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