Managerial learning and new product innovativeness in high-tech industries: Curvilinear effect and the role of multilevel institutional support

Combining organizational learning theory and institutional theory, this study examines how managerial learning affects the new product innovativeness of high-tech firms in an emerging market and assesses whether such an effect is conditional on institutional support. We propose that managerial learning helps firms increase the innovativeness of their new products, but this effect declines at high levels of managerial learning. Furthermore, we...