WHEN DOES SCIENTIST RECRUITMENT AFFECT TECHNOLOGICAL REPOSITIONING?

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Tzabbar, Daniel
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.44632853
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 873-896
• 关键词: research-and-development; resource-based view; TOP-MANAGEMENT; absorptive-capacity; LOCAL SEARCH; EXECUTIVE MIGRATION; Social integration; Knowledge transfer; INNOVATION; firm

摘要

An investigation of the conditions in which the recruitment of technologically distant scientists results in a significant technological repositioning reveals, on the basis of 2,643 biotechnology industry hiring events between 1973 and 1999, that recruitment is positively associated with repositioning. However, the more a firm's innovative productivity depends on one or a few star scientists, the less likely it is that recruitment affects repositioning. This likelihood increases at moderate levels of technological breadth and declines at very high or low levels. These results offer insights into the challenges of developing combinative capabilities by hiring scientific personnel.