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Innovation, imitation, and new product performance: The case of China by Zheng Zhou, Kevin

“…This paper compares the effects of innovation and imitation strategies on new product performance and examines their contingency across different market…”
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State Ownership and Firm Innovation in China: An Integrated View of Institutional and Efficiency Logics by Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Gao, Gerald Yong, Zhao, Hongxin

“…Using two longitudinal panel datasets of Chinese manufacturing firms, we assess whether state ownership benefits or impedes firms' innovation. We show that…”
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Technological capability, strategic flexibility, and product innovation by Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Wu, Fang

“…This paper examines the role of technological capability in product innovation. Building on the absorptive capacity perspective and organizational inertia…”
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Managing contracts for fairness in buyer-supplier exchanges by Poppo, Laura, Zhou, Kevin Zheng

“…Despite the centrality of fairness in the moral and social fabric of governance, few studies relate fairness to contracting research. This paper assesses…”
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How foreign firms curtail local supplier opportunism in China: Detailed contracts, centralized control, and relational governance by Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Xu, Dean

“…An ongoing debate in the interfirm exchange literature concerns whether economic and social governance mechanisms function as substitutes or complements. We…”
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How knowledge affects radical innovation: Knowledge base, market knowledge acquisition, and internal knowledge sharing by Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Li, Caroline Bingxin

“…This paper examines how existing knowledge base (i.e., knowledge breadth and depth) interacts with knowledge integration mechanisms (i.e., external market…”
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Environmental Strategy, Institutional Force, and Innovation Capability: A Managerial Cognition Perspective by Yang, Defeng, Wang, Aric Xu, Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Jiang, Wei

“…Despite the rising interest in environmental strategies, few studies have examined how managerial cognition of such strategies influences actual innovation…”
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When can you trust "trust"? Calculative trust, relational trust, and supplier performance by Poppo, Laura, Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Li, Julie J.

“…Our research empirically assesses two distinct bases for trust: calculative trust, based on a structure of rewards and penalties, versus relational trust, a…”
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The Effects of Business and Political Ties on Firm Performance: Evidence from China by Sheng, Shibin, Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Li, Julie Juan

“…Despite increasing attention to the role of social ties in emerging economies, few studies have explicitly distinguished the differential roles of business…”
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Buddhist influence and the executive-employee pay gap: An institutional contingency framework by Wang, Kunyi, Zheng Zhou, Kevin, Bai, Xuan

“…Although the connection between religion and ethical corporate behavior has been extensively studied, it is unclear whether the influence of Buddhism, an…”
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How does technological diversity in supplier network drive buyer innovation? Relational process and contingencies by Gao, Gerald Yong, Xie, En, Zhou, Kevin Zheng

“…External networks provide important knowledge sources of innovation for firms. Drawing on social network theory, this study examines how technological…”
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Do political ties facilitate operational efficiency? A contingent political embeddedness perspective by Shen, Lu, Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Wang, Kui, Zhang, Chuang

“…Although the significance of relational ties with supply chain partners to firms' operations management has been frequently studied, it is unclear how…”
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Institutions and opportunism in buyer–supplier exchanges: the moderated mediating effects of contractual and relational governance by Sheng, Shibin, Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Li, Julie Juan, Guo, Zhaoyang

“…The marketing channel literature has paid limited attention to institutional environments that constrain buyer–supplier exchanges, though such institutions are…”
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Relational mechanisms, formal contracts, and local knowledge acquisition by international subsidiaries by Li, Julie Juan, Poppo, Laura, Zhou, Kevin Zheng

“…This research focuses on relational and contractual mechanisms and examines their impact on foreign subsidiaries' acquisition of tacit and explicit knowledge…”
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Exchange hazards, relational reliability, and contracts in China: The contingent role of legal enforceability by Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Poppo, Laura

“…Building on institutional and transaction cost economics, this article proposes that legal enforceability increases the use of contract over relational…”
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Home Political Connections and Outward FDI of Emerging Market Firms by Huang, Yuanyuan, Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Wu, Zhan, Wang, Jue

“…While political connections are a critical non‐market strategy for emerging market firms (EMFs) to achieve success, how they affect EMFs’ outward foreign…”
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Stakeholder Relationship Capability and Firm Innovation: A Contingent Analysis by Jiang, Wei, Wang, Aric Xu, Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Zhang, Chuang

“…Despite the growing importance of stakeholder management, few studies have empirically examined the influence of stakeholder relationship capability (SRC) on…”
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Foreign ownership and bribery in Chinese listed firms: An institutional perspective by Jiang, Wei, Luo, Daokang, Wang, Liwen, Zheng Zhou, Kevin

“…While financial globalization serves to diffuse positive corporate practices worldwide, there remains a scarcity of studies investigating the potential of…”
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Trust asymmetry and changes in supplier opportunism: An institutional contingency view by Wang, Mengyang, Zheng Zhou, Kevin, Bai, Xuan, Li, Jiaxuan

“…Despite the importance of trust and the dyadic nature of exchange relationships, research on how differing trust perceptions between partners affect…”
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NPD speed vs. innovativeness: The contingent impact of institutional and market environments by Sheng, Shibin, Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Lessassy, Leopold

“…Whereas new product development (NPD) speed and product innovativeness are two critical strategic determinants of firm performance, previous studies show…”
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