The duality of collaboration: Inducements and opportunities in the formation of interfirm linkages

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ahuja, G
• 署名单位: University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(200003)21:3<317::AID-SMJ90>3.3.CO;2-2
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 317-343
• 关键词: Collaboration; alliances; INNOVATION; networks

摘要

I argue that the linkage-formation propensity of firms is explained by simultaneously examining both inducement and opportunity factors. Drawing upon resource-based and social network theory literatures I identify three forms of accumulated capital-technical, commercial, and social-that can affect a firm's inducements and opportunities to form linkages. Firms possessing these capital stocks enjoy advantages in linkages formation. However, firms lacking these accumulated resources can still form linkages if they generate a radical technological breakthrough. Thus, I identify paths to linkage formation for leading as well as peripheral firms. I test these arguments with longitudinal data on technical collaborative linkages in the global chemicals industry. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.