Beschreibung:
The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in innovation coming from emerging economy (EE) firms. In response to this increasingly popular phenomenon, scholars are examining various mechanisms EE firms use to learn from different stakeholders when seeking to improve their innovation performance. Building on a systematic review of 106 papers on this topic, we present a framework to understand when and why these EE firms use the different learning mechanisms. Specifically, we propose that the choice of learning mechanisms is driven by two key factors: level of institutional formality of the emerging economy and the level of internal capabilities of the EE firm. Building on these two dimensions, we find that EE firms can be classified into social network focused firms, laggard firms, leader firms and cutting-edge firms