407 research outputs found
The initiation and evolution of interfirm knowledge transfer in R&D relationships.
No full textKnowledge; Knowledge transfer; R&D;
A Retrospective Examination of a Successful Developmental Reviewing Process
No full textIn this essay, we describe a retrospective examination of a review process for a manuscript that was published in the Journal of Management Studies (JMS) in 2015 (Hannah &Robertson, 2015). The two authors of the essay are (a) the first author of the JMS manuscript, David Hannah, and (2)the JMS editor of that manuscript, Dries Faems. We originally engaged in this examination to prepare for a presentation at the Strategy Process Interest Group workshop on“The Process of Publishing Process Research” during the 2015 Strategic Management Society meeting in Denver, Colorado. We have written this essay with a goal of sharing our observations about this review process. Although we share some of the content of the original manuscript herein, we focus most of our attention on describing each step in the review process from the perspective of the author as well as the editor. We conclude by offering what we hope are usefuland generalizable lessons about the challenges that authors and editors face in the review process, how to navigate them, and how to systematically improve the overall review process.We begin in July 2013, with JMS submission P0431, titled, “Why do Employees put Confidential Information at Risk? CI Protection and Confidentiality Tension in High-Tech Employees.” The paper reported the findings of a qualitative, theory-elaborating study involving 55 semistructured interviews with the employees of two high-tech companies
Toward a dynamic perspective on open innovation: A longitudinal assessment of the adoption of internal and external innovation strategy in the Netherlands
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more dynamic perspective on open innovation by conducting a longitudinal analysis of the adoption of open innovation strategies. In order to do so, we rely on three comparable waves of the Dutch Community Innovation Survey, which were conducted in 1996, 2000 and 2004. The contributions of this study are twofold. First, this study is to our knowledge the first one to explicitly provide large-scale evidence of a paradigm shift from a closed to an open innovation model is taking place. At the same time, we provide evidence that this paradigm shift tends to occur in shocks instead of manifesting itself as a continuous process over time. Moreover, we show that the timing of these shocks differs across industries. Second, this study supports the assumption that internal and external innovation strategies are complements instead of substitutes
Towards adualism: becoming and nihilism in Nietzsche's philosophy
No full textThis chapter argues that Nietzsche held two doctrines of becoming: one more radical, which he requires to fend off nihilism, and one much more moderate—the ontology of relations he develops under the label ‘will to power’. Based on the latter he develops what the author call his ‘adualistic’—neither monistic nor dualistic—practice of thought, a ‘simultaneity-thinking’ (Zugleich-Denken) that is no longer subject to nihilism. For Nietzsche’s belief in the reality of the threat of nihilism to be intelligible, the author attributes to Nietzsche at least three assumptions that underpin his entire project: (1) ‘what there is, is becoming (and not being)’, (2) ‘most (if not all) strongly believe in being’, and (3) nihilism is a function of the belief in being
Building Appropriation Advantage:AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
No full textMultistep Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporation Networks: When Do Subsidiaries Benefit From Unconnected Sister Alliances?
No full textIn this paper, we explore under which conditions subsidiaries of multinational corporations can benefit from the external networks of sister subsidiaries in terms of new knowledge generation. We focus on the phenomenon of unconnected sister alliances-that is, alliances of sister subsidiaries with whom the focal subsidiary lacks a recent history of internal R&D collaboration. Whereas unconnected sister alliances provide knowledge recombination opportunities for the focal subsidiary, realizing them is challenging because of particular knowledge transfer frictions. In this paper, we theorize on how particular conditions (i.e., headquarters proximity, knowledge overlap, size of focal subsidiary's own alliance network) influence the strength of these frictions, resulting in hypotheses on how these conditions moderate the relationship between the number of unconnected sister alliances and the generation of new knowledge by focal subsidiaries. We rely on a panel data set of 2,258 R&D subsidiaries belonging to 118 firms in the pharmaceutical industry to empirically test our hypotheses. Jointly, our findings enrich our current theoretical understanding of how different types of external linkages and their interactions shape subsidiaries' generation of new knowledge. We also illuminate the opportunities and challenges that multistep knowledge transfer processes entail
Nietzsche’s critique of staticism: Introduction to Nietzsche on time and history
No full textWhy are we still intrigued by Nietzsche? What the author argues in this chapter is that this sustained interest stems from Nietzsche’s challenge to what we might call the ‘staticism’ inherent in our ordinary experience. ‘Staticism’ can be defined, roughly speaking, as the view that the world is a collection of enduring, re-identifiable objects that change only very gradually and according to determinate laws. This article claims that as long as human beings subscribe to the ‘staticist picture’ Nietzsche will remain of interest. First, the chapter discusses Nietzsche’s rejection of the remnants of staticism in Hegel and Schopenhauer (both of whom, he holds, remain fundamentally opposed to taking time and history seriously). Second, it briefly outlines why Nietzsche deems the belief in any variant of the staticist picture as problematic. Finally, it examines Nietzsche’s adualistic-dialetheic stance towards the staticist worldview
Composing and managing technological alliance portfolios.
No full textSince the second half of the 1980s, the number of newly established alliances has seriously grown (de Man & Duysters, 2005). Consequently, it has become more important to study how alliance portfolios, i.e. a firm's collection of direct alliances with partners (Lavie, 2007: 1188) impact the alliance (portfolio) success of firms. Alliance portfolio researchers particularly focused on the performance implications of the alliance portfolios (i) structural configuration (structural perspective) or of its (ii) management processes (process perspective). This doctoral dissertation has three general aims that are related to both perspectives. First, we want to enrich the structural perspective on alliance portfolio configurations by incorporating the time dimension of alliance portfolios (chapter 1). Second, we aim to enrich the process perspective on alliance portfolio management by examining how firms organize their alliance portfolio management (chapter 2). Third, we want to integrate the structural and process perspective (chapter 3 and 4). Chapter 1: The Impact of Continuous and Discontinuous Alliance Strategies on Startup Innovation PerformanceIn the first chapter, we focus on the structural perspective by studying the innovative performance implications of the time frame of alliance strategies. The open innovation paradigm emphasizes the importance of alliances for improving the innovation performance of firms. However, existing empirical research on innovation performance implications of alliances is dominated by cross-sectional studies. Consequently, we do not know how the time frame of alliances might influence innovation performance. In this study, we therefore examine the impact of different time frames of alliance strategies on innovation performance. In order to do so, we collected panel data on 217 Flemish startup firms. The results show a positive association between discontinuous alliance strategies with suppliers and customers and incremental innovation performance. In addition, we find a positive impact of continuous alliance strategies with suppliers, competitors and universities and other research institutes on radical innovation performance. These findings encourage startup firms to balance their alliance portfolio not only in terms of different kinds of partners but also in terms of different kinds of time frames.Chapter 2: Organizing Alliance Portfolio ManagementThis chapter focuses on the process perspective by examining how firms organize their alliance portfolio management (APM). Whereas existing studies on APM mainly focus on (i) alliance experience and (ii) APM best practices, they remain silent on how firms organize their APM. Based on survey data of 161 companies that engaged in technology alliances between 2006 and 2008, we identify four first-order (APM formalization, APM hierarchy, APM specialization and APM participation) and two second-order (mechanistic APM and organic APM) dimensions that explain how firms organize the management of their technology alliance portfolios. In addition, through testing the performance implications of these APM dimensions, we provide evidence that organizing alliance portfolio management is an important aspect of the alliance capability building process. Chapter 3: Toward an Integrative Perspective on Alliance Portfolios: Connecting Alliance Portfolio Configuration, Management and SuccessIn this chapter, we conduct a systematic review of the emerging alliance portfolio literature which focuses on a firms collection of alliances rather than single alliances. We identify two perspectives that characterize the type of research within this domain. The structural perspective focuses on the configuration of alliance portfolios, whereas the process perspective examines the management of alliance portfolios. We further aim to enrich our understanding of alliance portfolio success by connecting these two perspectives. In particular, we formulate propositions which argue that the formalization, centralization and customization of the management of alliance portfolios moderate the relationship between (i) the configuration of alliance portfolios in terms of intensity and diversity and (ii) alliance portfolio success. We conclude by formulating future research directions.Chapter 4: Connecting Structural and Process Perspectives on Alliance Portfolios: The Innovation Performance Implications of Alliance Portfolio Configuration and Alliance Portfolio ManagementWhereas current alliance portfolio research has focused on the configuration ór management of alliance portfolios, the study in the fourth chapter aims to provide a more integrative perspective on alliance portfolios by empirically examining the interaction between alliance portfolio configuration (APC) ánd alliance portfolio management (APM) in influencing innovation performance of the focal firm. Based on data from 161 technology intensive firms, we show that 1) APM centralization moderates the relationship between growth of APC intensity and new-to-the-firm innovation performance and that 2) APM customization positively interacts with growth of APC diversity in predicting new-to-the-market innovation performance. Based on these results, this study contributes to integrating existing structural and process perspectives on alliance portfolios.status: Publishe
Transitional Governance in External Technology Trajectories: Connecting Pre-acquisition collaboration to post-acquisition integration
No full textCollaboration and acquisition have traditionally been observed as two alternative strategies to get access to external technologies. However, real option scholars have recently argued that firms can also engage in transitional technology sourcing trajectories where collaboration and acquisition are used as complementary strategies. While these real option scholars have identified factors that influence when partners are likely to shift from collaboration to acquisition, they remain silent on how such a transition can be effectively managed. Based on a multiple case-study of four transitional technology sourcing trajectories between one entrepreneurial and one established firm, this study therefore explores how the pre-acquisition collaboration stage and the post-acquisition integration are related to each other. Our findings suggest that entrepreneurial companies may use the pre-acquisition collaboration stage as a period to evaluate the goodwill of the established partner. In addition, we point to the presence of pre-acquisition integration efforts and the extent of strategic convergence during the pre-acquisition collaboration stage as factors that substantially influence the success of the post-acquisition integration process in transitional governance trajectories
When Does Goodwill Trust Matter in Interfirm New Product Development?
No full textThis study explores the impact goodwill trust has on new product development performance in 177 interfirm projects. Whereas the findings suggest that the relationship between goodwill trust and project performance is non-linear, they also reveal that the environmental context of the project (i.e. the degree of task interdependency) influences this relationship. In particular, we find an attenuated positive curve between goodwill trust and project innovation performance for modular innovation projects (projects with limited task interdependency), whereas the relationship becomes U-shaped for architectural innovation projects (projects with very high task interdependency). Jointly, our findings contribute to a more contingent perspective on the role of trust in inter-firm relationships, emphasizing that the benefits and liabilities of goodwill trust are likely to be different for different kinds of innovation projects.No Full Tex
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