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PurposeThis paper aims to propose the following questions: How does dynamic positioning influence organization's innovation performance? Does knowledge base mediate the relationship between them?Design/methodology/approachThe empirical setting of this study is the smartphone collaboration network from 2004 to 2017; the authors selected one-site schemes and data of patents from the Derwent Innovation Database. Furthermore, the authors adopted the negative binomial model with random effects to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe regression results show that organization's dynamic positioning has an inverted-U-shaped relationship with its exploratory innovation. Similarly, organization's dynamic positioning has an inverted-U-shaped relationship with its exploitative innovation. Besides, knowledge base mediates the relationship between dynamic positioning and organization's innovation performance.Originality/valueThis study empirically confirms the relationship between dynamic positioning and organization's innovation performance by separately examining exploratory and exploitative innovation. Furthermore, this study provides a contribution to the literature linking dynamic positioning and organization's innovation performance by investigating the mediating role of knowledge base.

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to enhance the comprehensive understanding of the roles of resource investments, explicit contracts and three components ofguanxi(i.e.renqing,ganqingandmianzi) in asymmetric research and development (R&D) partnerships. Treating dependence asymmetry as a multidimensional construct, this study examines the moderating effects of these elements on the relationships between resources and information asymmetry and opportunism.Design/methodology/approachThe study was executed by issuing questionnaires to R&D managers participating in R&D projects and collaborations in the Shanghai and Jiangsu provinces via e-mail and face to face surveys. A multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe empirical test generally supported the conceptual model and produced the following findings: first, resources and information asymmetry significantly and positively affect opportunism. Second, the partner's resource investments can weaken the effect of resources and information asymmetry on the partner's opportunism. Third, explicit contracts can reduce the impact of information asymmetry on the partner's opportunism. Fourth,renqingandganqingbut notmianzican weaken the influence of information asymmetry on the partner's opportunism.Originality/valueThis study provides a comprehensive and clear understanding of how opportunism can be curbed by jointly considering resource investments, explicit contracts andguanxiin asymmetric R&D cooperative relationships. Moreover, dependence asymmetry andguanxiare measured as a multidimensional construct and reveal their underlying structure, which expands previous understandings of risk management in R&D collaborations.