Abstract
This study aimed to identify how collaboration for innovation relates to the sustainable performance of the electronics industry in Brazil. We used a quantitative approach, collecting data by means of a cross-sectional survey in a sample of 112 companies. The main result indicates that the relationship between collaboration and sustainable performance is positive and significant, but of low intensity, confirming the indication from the literature. The same is noticed in checking the relationship between the collaboration and the three dimensions of sustainable performance, although no statistically significant difference was found between the degree of correlation and the three dimensions. Intervening factors such as size, age, internationalization and capital structure were also considered in verifying the relationship between collaboration for innovation and sustainable performance.
Highlights
This study aimed to identify how collaboration for innovation relates to the sustainable performance of the electronics industry in Brazil
“innovation is critical for the sustained development and prosperity of organizations”, (GOMES et al, 2011, p. 3) as well as obtaining a competitive advantage, in which the economic approach is the center of activities (DAROIT; NASCIMENTO, 2004)
In a study conducted with the main national and international journals that publish studies related to innovation and sustainability, we found some studies that jointly discuss innovation and sustainability, among which are: Hartman, Hofman and Stafford (1999); Fadeeva (2004); Barbieri (2007); Barbieri et al (2010); Sarkis, Cordeiro and Brust (2010); Murray, Haynes and Hudson (2010); Petzel, Archer and Fei (2010); Bos-Brouwers (2010); Schaltegger and Wagner (2011); Scandelari (2011); Damasceno et al (2011); Scandelari and Cunha (2013)
Summary
With regard to collaboration for innovation, according to Murray, Haynes and Hudson (2010), terms such as partnership, cooperation, alliance and coalition are used to describe the phenomenon of the junction of different parts to achieve and objective within a collaboration www.bbronline.com.br agreement. Balestrin, Verschoore and Reyes Junior (2010) used terms such as networks, cooperation, alliances, partnerships, collaboration and consortium as an expression of the same phenomenon. Tomlinson (2010) still points out that literature and empirical evidence tends to support the notion that the collaboration between companies has a positive impact on innovation Seen in these terms, Chesbrough (2011) highlights that companies such Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Genentech, Amgen, Gezyme, being considered to be highly innovative, develop little basic research internally, but innovate from the discoveries of other organizations. The data collection by CIS, by the Innobarometer and by PINTEC, conducted through questionnaires, is based on these data (sources of innovation), as previously highlighted In all these studies, the reasons that lead companies to seek these organizations to collaborate are not empirically explored. The idea is that development is understood as a process of promoting improvements in living conditions of the population, respecting the environment (BARBIERI, 2007) Perhaps this lack of consensus is justified because some studies dealing with sustainability do not define it or, when otherwise, use definitions that characterize sustainable performance. The indicators used by Scandelari (2011) are based on texts by Perin (2001) and Perform (2002) and on indicators of sustainable production, proposed by the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (LCSP) (Greiner, 2001)
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