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Performance enhancers or architectural reshapers? Configurations of complementary and dominant technologies with strategic resources for product innovation

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  • Sun, Yaowu
  • Xu, Yanan
  • Zou, Ming
  • Lv, Shiji

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Integrating complementary and dominant technologies is crucial for product innovation. Using panel fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and data from Chinese automobile manufacturers from 2008 to 2022, our study identifies two configurations associated with high component product innovation and three configurations associated with high full product innovation. The findings reveal that component product innovation depends on the synergy between complementary and dominant technologies, focusing on operational efficiency and resource optimization. By contrast, full product innovation requires dynamic integration of these technologies, supported by manufacturing and human capital resources, to balance technological demands with resource constraints. The stability of these configurations across time highlights their applicability and scalability. Our study contributes to the literature by advancing the dynamic view of dominant design theory, elucidating the evolving roles of complementary technologies across innovation types, and extending the resource-based view through identifying multiple resource-technology configurations that jointly constitute pathways associated with product innovation.

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  • Sun, Yaowu & Xu, Yanan & Zou, Ming & Lv, Shiji, 2026. "Performance enhancers or architectural reshapers? Configurations of complementary and dominant technologies with strategic resources for product innovation," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 211(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:211:y:2026:i:c:s0148296326002250
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116190
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