Cross-border Search, Ambidextrous Learning and Breakthrough Innovations in International New Ventures
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Cross-border search, Exploratory learning, Exploitative learning, Breakthrough innovations, International new venturesAbstract
To explore the impact of cross-border search and ambidextrous learning on breakthrough innovations of international new ventures, this study empirically analyzes the effect of prospective and following cross-border search on breakthrough innovations of international new ventures based on a sample of 246 international new ventures, focusing on the mediating effect of exploratory learning and exploitative learning between cross-border search and breakthrough innovations. The study finds that: both prospective and following cross-border search significantly enhance the performance of breakthrough innovations; ambidextrous learning has a positive and significant effect on breakthrough innovations, and the effect of exploitative learning is more significant; exploratory learning partially mediates the relationship between prospective cross-border search and breakthrough innovations, and fully mediates the relationship between following cross-border search and breakthrough innovations; and exploitative learning fully mediates the relationship between cross-border search and breakthrough innovations.
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