Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

8-2017

Abstract

The study aims to explore why some societies are more innovative than others in high-technology sectors. Following a crossvergence perspective, we generate nine causal conditions by accommodating both cultural and institutional varieties: uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, individualism and power distance as culture indicators, and union density, skill development, market capitalization to credit, prevalence of cluster and state dominance as institutional indicators. Applying the configurational approach, we conducted fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries. We confirm the equal importance of both cultural and institutional mechanisms as contributors to national innovativeness, and identify equifinal configurations of cultural and institutional varieties as leading to a high-tech society. The implication is that a society can adjust or develop various cultural and/or institutional conditions to maintain or create leadership in innovation.

Keywords

Innovation, Cultural dimensions, Comparative institutional varieties, Crossvergence, Fuzzy set methods

Discipline

Organizational Behavior and Theory | Strategic Management Policy | Technology and Innovation

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

Technovation

Volume

66-67

First Page

43

Last Page

56

ISSN

0166-4972

Identifier

10.1016/j.technovation.2017.05.003

Publisher

Elsevier

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2017.05.003

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