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This 5 page paper provides a critique of the methods used in an article on R and D processes and new product performance. This paper focuses on the specific elements of this one article. No additional sources cited.
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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 for older firms" (Soh, 2000; p. 19); and 6.. "The impact
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