The impact of global and local cohesion on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Guler, Isin; Nerkar, Atul
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Sabanci University
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.957
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 535-549
• 关键词: Cohesion; intraorganizational networks; INNOVATION; Pharmaceutical industry; global vs; Local

摘要

In this paper, we examine how the configuration of intraorganizational networks, and in particular, cohesion among members of an organization, influences organizations' innovative output. We argue that the cohesion among R&D scientists could be at a local level or a global level, and that local and global cohesion may have different impacts on firms' innovation performance. We test our hypotheses by examining the structure of the R&D collaboration networks within firms that operated in the pharmaceutical industry between 1981 and 1989, and their innovative outcomespatents that led to new product launches. We find that local cohesion has a positive impact on the innovative performance of a firm, and global cohesion has a negative impact. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.