New product search overtime: Past ideas in their prime?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Katila, R
• 署名单位: Stanford University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069326
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 995-1010
• 关键词: LOCAL SEARCH; UNITED-STATES; INNOVATION; MARKET; exploration; PERSPECTIVE; performance; COMPETITION; TECHNOLOGY; capacity

摘要

This 'study is an investigation of how the age of the knowledge that firms search affects how innovative they are. Two seemingly contradictory propositions are examined: (1) old knowledge hurts by making innovation activities obsolete and (2) old knowledge helps because its reliability and legitimacy promote innovation. Results based on longitudinal data on 131 robotics firms reconcile the contradictory propositions: while old intraindustry knowledge hurts, old extraindustry knowledge promotes innovation.