The constant generation of innovation is a major factor in explaining a firm’s long-term success. Accordingly, previous literatures have identified several organisational, processual, and cultural factors that enable firms to promote successful innovation. Although these success factors appear to be rather different, most of them revolve around continuity, competence, or cooperation. As little prior research has focused on the complexity and interdependence of these various interlinked theoretical concepts, we adopt a configurational and longitudinal approach to analyse the effect of continuity, competence, and cooperation on the innovation performance of a firm on short-, mid-, and long-term bases. Based on a longitudinal data set that captures the innovation behaviour of 220 firms from 2009 to 2015, we find that continuity is the basic requirement for constant innovation performance. In addition, cooperation is likely to be supportive of innovation performance in the short term, while competence supports innovation performance in the long term.

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创新活动的短期、中期和长期影响：对连续性、能力和合作的配置分析

不断产生的创新是解释公司长期成功的主要因素。因此，以前的文献已经确定了使公司能够促进成功创新的几个组织、流程和文化因素。尽管这些成功因素似乎大相径庭，但大多数都围绕着连续性、能力或合作。由于先前的研究很少关注这些相互关联的理论概念的复杂性和相互依存性，我们采用配置和纵向方法来分析连续性、能力和合作对公司在短期、中期、中期创新绩效的影响。和长期基地。基于一个纵向数据集，该数据集捕获了 220 家公司从 2009 年到 2015 年的创新行为，我们发现连续性是持续创新绩效的基本要求。此外，合作可能在短期内支持创新绩效，而能力在长期内支持创新绩效。