Knowledge transfer through inheritance: Spinout generation, development, and survival

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Agarwal, R; Echambadi, R; Franco, AM; Sarkar, MB
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Iowa
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/20159599
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 501-522
• 关键词: TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; Market orientation; resource; performance; entry; firm; strategy; entrepreneurship; capabilities; venture

摘要

We investigated how the knowledge capabilities of industry incumbents affected the generation, development, and performance of spin-outs (entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees). Analyses of 1977-97 data from the disk drive industry supported our hypothesis that incumbents with both strong technological and market pioneering know-how generate fewer spin-outs than firms with strength in only one of these areas. Also, an incumbent's capabilities at the time of a spin-out's founding positively affect the spin-out's knowledge capabilities and its probability of survival.