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作者：Phelps, Corey C.
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：This study examines the influence of the structure and composition of a firm's alliance network on its exploratory innovation innovation embodying knowledge that is novel relative to the firm's extant knowledge. A longitudinal investigation of 77 telecommunications equipment manufacturers indicated that the technological diversity of a firm's alliance partners increases its exploratory innovation. Further, network density among a firm's alliance partners strengthens the influence of diversity....
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作者：Yang, Hongyan; Phelps, Corey; Steensma, H. Kevin
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Although research suggests knowledge spillovers often benefit imitators at the expense of originators, we investigate how originating firms may also benefit from their own spillovers. When an originating firm's spillovers are recombined with complementary knowledge by recipient firms, a spillover knowledge pool is formed, containing opportunities for the originator to learn vicariously from recipients. In a longitudinal study of 87 telecommunications manufacturers, we found that a firm's rate ...
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作者：Battilana, Julie; Dorado, Silvia
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Rhode Island
摘要：We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a ready-to-wear model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study of two pioneering commercial microfinance organizations suggest that to be sustainable, new types of hybrid organizations need to create a common organizational identity that strikes a balance bet...
