Dynamic managerial capabilities and R&D spending : The role of CEO founder status

Titelangaben

Heubeck, Tim ; Meckl, Reinhard:
Dynamic managerial capabilities and R&D spending : The role of CEO founder status.
In: International Journal of Innovation Management. Bd. 26 (2022) Heft 10 . - 2250074.
ISSN 1363-9196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919622500748

Volltext

Link zum Volltext (externe URL):

Weitere URLs

Abstract

Today’s hypercompetitive economy challenges chief executive officers (CEOs) to make complex yet integral investments in research and development (R&D). Although research has widely discussed R&D spending due to its implications for competitive advantage, it omits whether and how managers’ dynamic capabilities materialise in these long-term investment decisions. This study builds on dynamic managerial capability (DMC) theory to argue that strong managerial-level dynamic capabilities increase R&D spending by improving the capacities of CEOs to sense opportunities and threats, seize them, and reconfigure organisational resources. CEO founder status is additionally proposed as a moderator of this relationship, as founder CEOs differ from professional CEOs in their investment behaviour. The results reveal that DMCs only compositely contribute to R&D investments, while the DMC subcomponents–except for managerial social capital—exert no isolated effects. This study also finds that founder CEOs realise higher R&D investments through their DMCs than their professional counterparts.