Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/206376 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] BRQ Business Research Quarterly [ISSN:] 2340-9436 [Volume:] 21 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Elsevier España [Place:] Barcelona [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 11-25
Publisher: 
Elsevier España, Barcelona
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether and to what extent individual firms improve their innovation from behaving as brokers connecting other actors in the Spanish ceramic tile cluster. The effects of the brokerage roles are analyzed for different innovation levels by means of quantile regressions. Finally, we speculate about the indirect and interactive effects of the distinct individual organization attributes and these benefits. Results show that brokerage activities unevenly influence the broker's innovative performance. In addition, the intensity of the impact varies for different innovation levels and the firm's absorptive capacity moderate the final effect of acting as a broker."
Subjects: 
Broker
Industrial cluster
Innovation
Social network analysis
Quantile regression
Ceramic industry
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Document Type: 
Article

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