LEARNING FROM WHAT OTHERS HAVE LEARNED FROM YOU: THE EFFECTS OF KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS ON ORIGINATING FIRMS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yang, Hongyan; Phelps, Corey; Steensma, H. Kevin
• 署名单位: Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2010.49389018
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 371-389
• 关键词: ABSORPTIVE-CAPACITY; patent citations; INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGY; exploration; indicators; complex; SYSTEM; FLOWS

摘要

Although research suggests knowledge spillovers often benefit imitators at the expense of originators, we investigate how originating firms may also benefit from their own spillovers. When an originating firm's spillovers are recombined with complementary knowledge by recipient firms, a spillover knowledge pool is formed, containing opportunities for the originator to learn vicariously from recipients. In a longitudinal study of 87 telecommunications manufacturers, we found that a firm's rate of innovation and the extent to which these innovations integrate knowledge from the spillover knowledge pool is greater when this pool is larger in size and similar to the firm's knowledge base.