Diversity of corporate board interlocks and service innovations
时间：2019年12月24日 下午14:30-16:30
地点：浙江大学紫金港校区行政楼1102会议室
主讲人：Dr. Yansong Hu， Warwick Business School
主持人：寿涌毅教授，yl23411永利
摘要：
Recently the topic of how corporate board interlocks can affect innovations has attracted increasing attention. Yet, the impact of corporate board interlocks on service innovations, a key issue in the innovation literature, has been overlooked. Addressing this gap, the authors consider how the service innovation of a firm can be influenced by its position in the corporate board interlocks, in particular, its diversity of the ego network within the corporate board interlocks. They suggest that ego network diversity provides firms with access to a diversified knowledge and information and therefore facilitates the development of new services. Applying social network theory, the authors propose that the positive effect of ego network diversity on a firm’s service innovations is enhanced by its global betweenness and closeness centrality within the corporate board interlocks. And the results confirm the prediction on the effect of betweenness centrality. In addition, applying the motivation-opportunity-ability theory, the authors further suggest that the effect of the firm’s board interlock diversity on new service introductions is contingent on its board composition (the number of different nationalities of board members and their dispersion of qualifications) and experience (board tenure) and availability to serve on its board. The findings highlight the different contingent roles of board interlocks on service innovation outcomes and contribute to the literature on service innovations, board interlocks, and social networks.
主讲人简介：
Dr. Yansong Hu is an associate professor of marketing at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. His research interests focus on the development of new products, new technologies and services, their adoption and diffusion, social network, digital and social media. His research has been published in leading journals in marketing and management, including Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and featured on INFORMS News and Knowledge@Wharton. His past research has won various international awards, including the American Marketing Association Outstanding Paper Award and the American Academy of Marketing Best Paper Award. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Business Research, a research affiliate at the China Management Research Center Cambridge University, and a regular reviewer for journals in marketing and innovation research, including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, R and D management, and Industrial Marketing Management.
With various teaching awards from the Warwick Business School, he has taught undergraduate, postgraduate and corporate executives from over thirties different countries and regions. He has served as a member of the Doctoral Committee of Warwick Business School, and a judge of the American Marketing Association Doctoral Thesis Competition.
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