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A 5 page paper critiquing the methods used in a study designed to assess the effects of R&D investment and strategic alliance activity among 50 of the top 200 US firms in the networking industry. The paper describes methods used and comments on the appropriateness of the statistical analyses used. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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paper properly! Introduction Pek-hooi Soh (2000) conducted a study intended to determine "how multiple sources of opportunities arising from R&D and
networking capabilities will affect new product performance and how these impacts differ for products introduced by young and old firms" (p. 2). Sohs (2000) hypothesis is that R&D investment
and strategic alliance formation behavior "create differential information and resource benefits which may explain firm variations in new product performance" (p. 2). Soh (2000) suggests that willingness to invest
in R&D and a history of active R&D pursuit positively affects the firms future benefits from further R&D investment in writing that "The emergence of new opportunities is thus dependent
on prior related knowledge in the R&D function" (p. 10). Hypotheses Soh (2000) seeks to test six hypotheses relating to R&D investment, inter-organizational
networking and the benefits of strategic alliances. These hypotheses are: 1. "The amount of R&D investments of a firm is positively related to its R&D output, as measured by
new product performance in the subsequent year" (Soh, 2000; p. 12); 2. "As a firms network position is better connected relative to its competitors, the firm will achieve better new
product performance in the subsequent year" (Soh, 2000; p. 16); 3. "As a firm increases the number of partners with whom repeated alliances are formed, the firm will achieve better
new product performance in the subsequent year" (Soh, 2000; p. 16); 4. "The impact of R&D investments on new product performance in the subsequent year is much greater for older
firms than for younger firms" (Soh, 2000; p. 19); 5. "The impact of network positions on new product performance in the subsequent year is much greater for younger firms than
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