Chapter 5: Conclusion and Limitation
5.2 Limitations and future research
The result of this study show the context that moderating role of organizational slack between technological diversification and firm performance. It also leave some limitation for future research. First, the empirical of this study is from firms of smart phone industry and its have OEM nature. So it may suggest framework and examine in other technological-based firms, other industry, or firms have its own brand. Second, this study is propose the moderating role: the effect of organization slack between the technological diversification and firm performance. Maybe the theoretical framework could using other strategic factor to substitute the moderating role.
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