Technological Innovation, Firm Performance, and Institutional Context: A Meta-Analysis

Technological innovation, a complex and multidimensional construct, refers to innovations associated with an organization's operations, such as the introduction of new/improved products or processes. Scholars practitioners recognize importance technological innovation in firm's ability obtain sustainable competitive advantage. However, empirical findings on overarching relationship between firm performance remain inconclusive. Thus, this article, we attempt reconcile mixed results by employing multivariate meta-analytic methodology. We find that has significant positive impact performance. Furthermore, support for moderating influence cross-cultural institutional differences relationship. observed better outcome occurring nations lower propensity avoid uncertainty collectivistic attitudes. In contrast, suffers when occurs have stronger patent protection.