Firms’ Supply Chain Integration, R&D Collaboration, and Impact on Competitiveness: Evidence from Czechia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F24%3A10486609" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/24:10486609 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=UcnRAzBaFa" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=UcnRAzBaFa</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01242-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13132-023-01242-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Firms’ Supply Chain Integration, R&D Collaboration, and Impact on Competitiveness: Evidence from Czechia
Original language description
This paper aims to reveal associations between firm strategies for vertical supply chain integration and strategy for horizontal R&D collaboration through the analysis of four Czech regions. Drawing on evolutionary economic geography and global production networks literature, we applied a combinatorial and dynamic view on firms' supply chain integration, R&D collaboration, and impact on competitiveness. Conceptually, we argue that companies not only produce and sell goods at different levels (global, national, regional), but are located in differently developed regions and innovation systems with different institutional qualities. Therefore, various modes of engagement within vertical supply chains and at the same time different R&D collaboration strategies influence competitiveness of firms. Empirically, we revealed that the vertical integration strategy drives levels of regional R&D collaboration for a firm. It turns out that globally more connected and technologically sophisticated firms are not highly interconnected by R&D collaboration within regional/national innovation systems. Moreover, technologically capable firms with little or no R&D collaboration may be highly profitable on average, but they are vulnerable in the long run. Furthermore, an intensive involvement in R&D collaboration had the highest resistance towards economic shocks. We also found statistically significant positive relationship with medium R&D collaboration and productivity of firms.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-03754S" target="_blank" >GA19-03754S: Comprehension of engagement of companies into global production networks: regional and sectorial analysis of companies operating in Czechia</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of the Knowledge Economy
ISSN
1868-7865
e-ISSN
1868-7873
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
5817-5840
UT code for WoS article
000977727300003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85153759288