Examination Of Complementarity Research Articles

Innovation complementarity, cooperation partners, and new product export: Evidence from Poland

The network approach to innovation and internationalization has been developing since the early 1990s (Johanson & Mattsson, 1988; Rothwell, 1992) and dominates the recent models of innovation and internationalization of firms. Nevertheless, the extensive literature referring to these models has not yet inspired comprehensive studies combining these two research streams. This paper addresses the gap by linking innovation, innovation cooperation, and export in one study. The findings are based on firm-level empirical data collected by the Community Innovation Survey for Poland in 2011, embracing the sample of 6855 medium and large industrial firms. The quantitative analysis is conducted with the use of the classification tree AID algorithm. The examination of complementarities between various types of innovation—product, process, and marketing innovations—shows that combining product and process innovation increases new product export intensity. The analysis of the relationship between various types of innovation cooperation partners and new product export identifies foreign partners as conducive to increased export intensity. The findings may be specific to firms from transition and emerging economies indicating their path to international competitiveness in more mature markets. However, the study also offers a more universal contribution both to innovation and internationalization theory. It affirms the need for a more holistic view of innovation and confirms the necessity to apply the network approach to research on interrelationships between innovation and internationalization of firms.

Examination of Complementarity in Speech and Emotional Vocalization Perception

Lateralization of cognitive functioning is a well-established principle of cerebral organization. The left and right hemispheres are known to play distinct and complementary roles in the processing of information. What is still unclear is whether these asymmetrically lateralized functions have a common or distinct developmental origin; are left and right processes lateralized through causal influences, or is the laterality of each function independently influenced? Left- and right-lateralized functions are commonly assessed in isolation, with little attention to the relationship in the degree and direction of lateralization within individuals. This relationship between left-hemisphere processing of speech sounds and right-hemisphere processing of emotional vocalizations was examined using dichotic listening tasks. An overall complementary pattern of lateralization was observed across participants, but no significant relationship was found for degree of lateralization of speech and emotional vocalization processing within individuals. These results support the view that functions in the left and right hemispheres are independently lateralized.

On Decisions for Integration Implementation: An Examination of Complementarities Between Product‐Process Technology Integration and Supply Chain Integration

ABSTRACTResearch has shown that both product‐process technology (PPT) integration and supply chain integration efforts produce operational benefits, yet synergies between these types of integration are not well understood. This article empirically examines strategic customer integration and supplier integration as complementary activities for PPT integration, with the aim of helping manufacturing plant managers to intelligently implement mutually supportive types of integration. We set two conditions for establishing complementarity: (i) one type of strategic integration must positively influence the adoption of another and (ii) the two types of strategic integration must exhibit a synergistic fit with respect to manufacturing plant capabilities. We test these conditions using survey results representing 224 manufacturing plants. The findings show positive complementarities between PPT integration and supplier integration with respect to quality, delivery, and process flexibility. Also, positive complementarities exist between PPT integration and customer integration with respect to quality and new product flexibility. The results extend the emerging theory of strategic value chain integration and provide guidance to manufacturing managers who wish to assemble strategic integration policies.

Linking Internal Process Technology Development and the Use of AMT With Manufacturing Plant Performance---An Examination of Complementarities and Redundancies

In this paper, we distinguish between the internal and external means by which manufacturing plants engage in process technology development. While computerized and equipment-based advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) are typically sourced from external vendors, plants also develop proprietary process technologies in-house. We present internal process technology development (IPTD) as a construct that captures this internal means of process technology development, and investigate the individual and interaction effects of IPTD and externally sourced computerized and equipment-based AMT on manufacturing plant performance. Our results indicate that IPTD is positively associated with quality, delivery, and process flexibility, but it is not significantly associated with cost efficiency or new product flexibility. The indicated relationships between the use of specific types of AMT (process, design, and planning AMT) and manufacturing plant performance and between IPTD-AMT interactions and manufacturing plant performance suggest context specificity. In addition, the findings suggest the existence of complementarities as well as the redundancies among IPTD-AMT relationships.

The interpersonal process of cognitive-behavioral therapy: An examination of complementarity over the course of treatment.

The interpersonal process of cognitive-behavioral therapy: An examination of complementarity over the course of treatment.

The interpersonal process of cognitive–behavioral therapy: An examination of complementarity over the course of treatment.

Data from 20 clients seeing 4 experienced therapists conducting time-limited, cognitive-behavioral therapy in a university counseling center were examined with respect to the pattern of complementarity and its relation to outcome. The Interpersonal Communication Rating Scale-Revised (S. R. Strong, H. Hills, & B. Nelson, 1988) was used to determine levels of complementarity. Results of growth curve analyses support the covariation of the U-shaped pattern of complementarity with outcome. More successful dyads demonstrated a pattern of initial high levels of complementarity, decreasing levels in the middle of treatment, and then increasing levels at the end, but not as high as at the beginning. Less successful dyads did not demonstrate this pattern.