This paper probes deeper into the impact of specific investment on the performance of R&D collaboration through investigating the relationships of both total specific investment and specific investment asymmetry to the performance of R&D collaboration and by examining the mediating effects of cooperative and competitive behaviors on the relationships. Drawing on the data of 140 dyadic R&D collaboration, this paper finds that total specific investment and specific investment asymmetry have different effects on the performance of R&D collaboration, and cooperative and competitive behaviors are the conduits through which specific investment works. These findings not only enrich our knowledge on the linkage of specific investment to the performance of R&D collaboration, but also advance our understanding of the implications of specific investment and the determinants of the performance of R&D collaboration. In addition, this paper responds to the call for testing antecedents and consequences of cooperative and competitive behaviors in collaboration and thereby contributes to research on these behaviors.

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大量投资和对称投资：专项投资对研发合作绩效的影响

本文通过考察专项投资总额和专项投资不对称性与研发合作绩效的关系，并考察合作与竞争行为对研发合作绩效的中介作用，深入探讨专项投资对研发合作绩效的影响。借鉴140个二元研发合作的数据，本文发现总量特定投资和特定投资不对称对研发合作绩效有不同的影响，合作和竞争行为是特定投资发挥作用的渠道。这些发现不仅丰富了我们关于特定投资与研发合作绩效之间联系的知识，但也促进了我们对特定投资的影响和研发合作绩效的决定因素的理解。此外，本文响应了在协作中测试合作和竞争行为的前因和后果的呼吁，从而有助于对这些行为的研究。